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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 4, 2026
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This is a preprint describing a Hessian-based automatic differentiation method for numerically continuing periodic orbits in dynamical systems, demonstrated on the double pendulum without peer review or comparative validation. The work is exploratory and methodological, identifying previously unreported periodic orbits as a proof-of-concept; it does not establish superiority over existing approaches or test the method on independent problems.
Preprint. Intervention: Hessian-based automatic differentiation method for periodic orbit continuation, parametrized as Fourier series with loss function based on deviation from differential equations..
Method automates periodic orbit continuation using automatic differentiation instead of hand-derived Jacobians. Approach is integrator-free and efficiently detects orbit family intersections and subharmonic bifurcations. Identifies periodic double pendulum orbits where both masses are never simultaneously at rest, reported as novel to the literature.
Approach is integrator-free and efficiently detects orbit family intersections and subharmonic bifurcations.
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This is a computational methods paper presenting a novel algorithmic approach to finding periodic orbits in dynamical systems, demonstrated on the double pendulum; it raises methodological questions rather than answering a clinical or empirical question, and contains no comparative validation or benchmarking against established methods.
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We present a Hessian-based approach to numerically continue periodic orbits in dynamical systems. A loop (periodic orbit candidate) is parametrized as a Fourier series; a loss function is defined based on the deviation of the loop from the physical differential equations. Unlike previous work relying on hand-derived Jacobians, our method automates the process by leveraging automatic differentiation, a common machine learning technique. The continuation direction can be determined by the flat directions of the loss landscapes (directions with zero eigenvalues), making the search of periodic orbits efficient and guided. Our method is integrator-free, precisely initializes oscillations around unstable fixed points, and efficiently detects orbit family intersections and subharmonic bifurcations. As a demonstration, we present full continuations of periodic double pendulum oscillations from fixed points, showing bifurcations along orbit families and categorizing branches of periodic orbits. In particular, we find periodic orbits where both pendulum masses are never simultaneously at rest, which to our knowledge has been missing in the literature.
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