Appendix D

Floquet Theory

Floquet theory [358] deals with first-order matrix ordinary differential equations of the kind

image (D.1)

where the prime denotes differentiation with respect to the argument, image is a column vector with image components and the image matrix is a piecewise continuous function of with period , i.e.

(D.2)

The matrix , defined by the functional ...

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