Uniform Expansions of Periodic Solutions for the Third Superharmonic Resonance

A new method of uniform expansions of periodic solutions to ordinary differential equations has recently been proposed to study quasi-harmonic processes in non-linear dynamical systems, in particular, when a small parameter of non-linearity is absent. The main idea of the method consists in using the ratio of the amplitudes of higher harmonics to the amplitude of the first harmonic of a periodic solution as a small formal parameter that appears due to descending the amplitudes of harmonics monotonically with increasing their number (this is the condition that the term quasi-harmonic implies). In this paper, the method is generalized for the third superharmonic resonance (when the first and the third harmonics become of the same magnitude) in a harmonically forced oscillator with arbitrary odd polynomial non-linearity.