Trying to understand eigenvalues with respect to differential equations.
I am trying to understand how to find eigenvalues from a matrix consisting of exponential terms, considering a differential equation. The examples I've seen online are ODEs. Without using a vector with exponential terms, here is what I have learned.
Here is what I am trying to understand
Section of a paper with imag eigenvalue
In this paper, the following assumption is made.
They are using partial derivatives (I believe this can be viewed as an ODE then?). Differentiating with respect to time I believe yields the following. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Or
Are my assumptions correct? If so, is there a deeper analysis to why this is the case with exponential terms?
Finding the extrema of a functional (calculus of variations)
Explanation:
Which gives the Euler equation (I think, unless I messed up my math).
Ok now I need to try to find solutions to this differential equation, however, I only know how to solve linear second order DE's. The x term is throwing me off and I am not sure how to solve this.
I know is a solution by inspection, but inspection is a poor man's approach to solving DE's.
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