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  2. Stability theory - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, stability theory addresses the stability of solutions of differential equations and of trajectories of dynamical systems under small perturbations of initial conditions. The heat equation , for example, is a stable partial differential equation because small perturbations of initial data lead to small variations in temperature ...

  3. Stability (algebraic geometry) - Wikipedia

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    This analogy with mechanical equilibrium motivates the terminology of stability and instability. In mathematics, and especially algebraic geometry, stability is a notion which characterises when a geometric object, for example a point, an algebraic variety, a vector bundle, or a sheaf, has some desirable properties for the purpose of ...

  4. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    While a system of 3 bodies interacting gravitationally is chaotic, a system of 3 bodies interacting elastically is not. [clarification needed] There is no general closed-form solution to the three-body problem. [1] In other words, it does not have a general solution that can be expressed in terms of a finite number of standard mathematical ...

  5. Bistability - Wikipedia

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    A ball located at this point, ball 3, is in equilibrium but unstable; the slightest disturbance will cause it to move to one of the stable points. Light switch, a bistable mechanism. In a dynamical system, bistability means the system has two stable equilibrium states. [1] A bistable structure can be resting in either of two states.

  6. Autonomous system (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Stability generally increases to the left of the diagram. [1] Some sink, source or node are equilibrium points. 2-dimensional case refers to Phase plane. In mathematics, an autonomous system or autonomous differential equation is a system of ordinary differential equations which does not explicitly depend on the independent variable.

  7. Stability of matter - Wikipedia

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    The first solution to this problem was provided by Freeman Dyson and Andrew Lenard in 1967–1968, [1] [2] but a shorter and more conceptual proof was found later by Elliott Lieb and Walter Thirring in 1975 using the Lieb–Thirring inequality. [3] The stability of matter is partly due to the uncertainty principle and the Pauli exclusion ...

  8. L-stability - Wikipedia

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    Within mathematics regarding differential equations, L-stability is a special case of A-stability, a property of Runge–Kutta methods for solving ordinary differential equations.

  9. Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion - Wikipedia

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    In the control system theory, the Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion is a mathematical test that is a necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of a linear time-invariant (LTI) dynamical system or control system. A stable system is one whose output signal is bounded; the position, velocity or energy do not increase to infinity as ...