Maslov index for homoclinic orbits of Hamiltonian systems

A useful tool for studying nonlinear differential equations is index theory. For symplectic paths on bounded intervals, the index theory has been completely established, which revealed tremendous applications in the study of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems. Nevertheless, analogous questions concerning homoclinic orbits are still left open. In this paper we use a geometric approach to set up Maslov index for homoclinic orbits of Hamiltonian systems. On the other hand, a relative Morse index for homoclinic orbits will be derived through Fredholm index theory. It will be shown that these two indices coincide.     

Homoclinic,heteroclinic and periodic orbits of singularly perturbed systems

The main aims of this paper are to study the persistence of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of the reduced systems on normally hyperbolic critical manifolds, and also the limit cycle bifurcations either from the homoclinic loop of the reduced systems or from a family of periodic orbits of the layer systems. For the persistence of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits, and the limit cycles bifurcating from a homolinic loop of the reduced systems, we provide a new and readily detectable method to characterize them compared with the usual Melnikov method when the reduced system forms a generalized rotated vector field. To determine the limit cycles bifurcating from the families of periodic orbits of the layer systems, we apply the averaging methods.We also provide two four-dimensional singularly perturbed differential systems, which have either heteroclinic or homoclinic orbits located on the slow manifolds and also three limit cycles bifurcating from the periodic orbits of the layer system.     

Homoclinic Orbits for a Class of Fractional Hamiltonian Systems via Variational Methods

This paper is devoted to the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic orbits for a class of fractional-order Hamiltonian systems with left and right Liouville–Weyl fractional derivatives. Here, we present a new approach via variational methods and critical point theory to obtain sufficient conditions under which the Hamiltonian system has at least one homoclinic orbit or multiple homoclinic orbits. Some results are new even for second-order Hamiltonian systems.     

一类Hamilton系统的同宿解存在性

We study the existence of homoclinic orbits for some Hamiltonian system.A homoclinic orbit is obtained as a limit of 2kT-periodic solutions of a sequence of systems of differential equations.     

Scientific heritage of L.P. Shilnikov

This is the first part of a review of the scientific works of L.P. Shilnikov. We group his papers according to 7 major research topics: bifurcations of homoclinic loops; the loop of a saddle-focus and spiral chaos; Poincare homoclinics to periodic orbits and invariant tori, homoclinic in noautonous and infinite-dimensional systems; Homoclinic tangency; Saddlenode bifurcation — quasiperiodicity-to-chaos transition, blue-sky catastrophe; Lorenz attractor; Hamiltonian dynamics. The first two topics are covered in this part. The review will be continued in the further issues of the journal.     

Irregular dynamics and homoclinic orbits to Hamiltonian saddle centers

We consider 4-dimensional, real, analytic Hamiltonian systems with a saddle center equilibrium (related to a pair of real and a pair of imaginary eigenvalues) and a homoclinic orbit to it. We find conditions for the existence of transversal homoclinic orbits to periodic orbits of long period in every energy level sufficiently close to the energy level of the saddle center equilibrium. We also consider one-parameter families of reversible, 4-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. We prove that the set of parameter values where the system has homoclinic orbits to a saddle center equilibrium has no isolated points. We also present similar results for systems with heteroclinic orbits to saddle center equilibria. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Multi-bump orbits homoclinic to resonance bands

We establish the existence of several classes of multi-bump orbits homoclinic to resonance bands for completely-integrable Hamiltonian systems subject to small-amplitude Hamiltonian or dissipative perturbations. Each bump is a fast excursion away from the resonance band, and the bumps are interspersed with slow segments near the resonance band. The homoclinic orbits, which include multi-bump \v{S}ilnikov orbits, connect equilibria and periodic orbits in the resonance band. The main tools we use in the existence proofs are the exchange lemma with exponentially small error and the existence theory of orbits homoclinic to resonance bands which make only one fast excursion away from the resonance bands.

     

DISSIPATIVE SCHEMES WITH PROPERTY OF INHERITING HOMOCLINIC ORBITS FOR 2N-DIMENSIONAL HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS

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Symbolic dynamics and Arnold diffusion

We consider hyperbolic tori of three degrees of freedom initially hyperbolic Hamiltonian systems. We prove that if the stable and unstable manifold of a hyperbolic torus intersect transversaly, then there exists a hyperbolic invariant set near a homoclinic orbit on which the dynamics is conjugated to a Bernoulli shift. The proof is based on a new geometrico-dynamical feature of partially hyperbolic systems, the transversality-torsion phenomenon, which produces complete hyperbolicity from partial hyperbolicity. We deduce the existence of infinitely many hyperbolic periodic orbits near the given torus. The relevance of these results for the instability of near-integrable Hamiltonian systems is then discussed. For a given transition chain, we construct chain of hyperbolic periodic orbits. Then we easily prove the existence of periodic orbits of arbitrarily high period close to such chain using standard results on hyperbolic sets.     

一类含有参数和有理奇性哈密顿系统的同宿与异宿轨道

研究一类含有两个参数和有理奇性平面哈密顿系统的同宿与异宿轨道,该问题来源于一个关于聚合物流体剪切流动特性的研究．借助常微定性理论和不变流形分析的方法,文中给出了系统存在同宿与异宿轨道的条件,并通过数值计算检验了所得理论结果。     

Index theory for heteroclinic orbits of Hamiltonian systems

Index theory revealed its outstanding role in the study of periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and the dynamical consequences of this theory are enormous. Although the index theory in the periodic case is well-established, very few results are known in the case of homoclinic orbits of Hamiltonian systems. Moreover, to the authors’ knowledge, no results have been yet proved in the case of heteroclinic and halfclinic (i.e. parametrized by a half-line) orbits. Motivated by the importance played by these motions in understanding several challenging problems in Classical Mechanics, we develop a new index theory and we prove at once a general spectral flow formula for heteroclinic, homoclinic and halfclinic trajectories. Finally we show how this index theory can be used to recover all the (classical) existing results on orbits parametrized by bounded intervals.     

A parameter study of epitaxial crystal growth

A third order autonomous ordinary differential equation is studied that is derived from a mathematical model of epitaxial crystal growth on misoriented crystal substrates. The solutions of the ODE correspond to the traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation which is related to the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation. The fixed points, the periodic solutions, and the heteroclinic orbits of the ODE are analysed, and stability results are given. A variety of nonlinear phenomena are observed, including Gavrilov–Guckenheimer bifurcations, homoclinic bifurcations, and a cascade of period doublings.     

Shadowing Homoclinic Chains to a Symplectic Critical Manifold

We prove the existence of trajectories shadowing chains of heteroclinic orbits to a symplectic normally hyperbolic critical manifold of a Hamiltonian system.The results are quite different for real and complex eigenvalues. General results are applied to Hamiltonian systems depending on a parameter which slowly changes with rate ε. If the frozen autonomous system has a hyperbolic equilibrium possessing transverse homoclinic orbits, we construct trajectories shadowing homoclinic chains with energy having quasirandom jumps of order ε and changing with average rate of orderε| ln ε|. This provides a partial multidimensional extension of the results of A. Neishtadt on the destruction of adiabatic invariants for systems with one degree of freedom and a figure 8 separatrix.     

Melnikov方法和圆型平面限制性三体问题的横截同宿研究*

本文对由两自由度近可积哈密顿系统经非正则变换而得到的,具有高阶不动点的非哈密顿系统给出了判别横截同宿轨和横截异宿轨存在性的两条判据。对原二体质量比很小时近可积圆型平面限制性三体问题,采用本文判据证明存在横截同宿轨,从而存在横截同宿穿插现象;还在一定假设下证明了存在横截异宿轨;并给出了全局定性相图。     

On bifurcations of multidimensional diffeomorphisms having a homoclinic tangency to a saddle-node

We study the main bifurcations of multidimensional diffeomorphisms having a nontransversal homoclinic orbit to a saddle-node fixed point. On a parameter plane we build a bifurcation diagram for single-round periodic orbits lying entirely in a small neighborhood of the homoclinic orbit. Also, a relation of our results to the well-known codimension one bifurcations of a saddle fixed point with a quadratic homoclinic tangency and a saddle-node fixed point with a transversal homoclinic orbit is discussed.     

Homoclinic orbits for Hamiltonian systems induced by impulses

In this paper, we consider a class of impulsive Hamiltonian systems with a p‐Laplacian operator. Under certain conditions, we establish the existence of homoclinic orbits by means of the mountain pass theorem and an approximation technique. In some special cases, the homoclinic orbits are induced by the impulses in the sense that the associated non‐impulsive systems admit no non‐trivial homoclinic orbits. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Infinitely many homoclinic orbits for the second-order Hamiltonian systems

In this paper, the existence of homoclinic orbits for the second-order Hamiltonian systems without periodicity is studied and infinitely many homoclinic orbits for both superlinear and asymptotically linear cases are obtained.     

Homoclinic orbits for a class of first-order nonperiodic asymptotically quadratic Hamiltonian systems with spectrum point zero

In this paper, we study the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic orbits for a class of first-order nonperiodic Hamiltonian systems. By applying two recent critical point theorems for strongly indefinite functionals, we give some new criteria to guarantee that Hamiltonian systems with asymptotically quadratic terms and spectrum point zero have at least one and a finite number of pairs of homoclinic orbits under some adequate conditions, respectively.     

Melnikov's Method and Codimension-Two Bifurcations in Forced Oscillations

Using a Melnikov-type technique, we study codimension-two bifurcations called the Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations for subharmonics in periodic perturbations of planar Hamiltonian systems. We give a criterion for the occurrence of the Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations and present approximate expressions for saddle-node, Hopf and homoclinic bifurcation sets near the Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation points. We illustrate the theoretical result with an example.     

Codiagonalization of Matrices and Existence of Multiple Homoclinic Solutions

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we use Lagrange''s method and the generalized eigenvalue problem to study systems of two quadratic equations. We find exact conditions so the system can be codiagonalized and can have up to $4$ solutions. Second, we use this result to study homoclinic bifurcations for a periodically perturbed system. The homoclinic bifurcation is determined by $3$ bifurcation equations. To the lowest order, they are $3$ quadratic equations, which can be simplified by the codiagonalization of quadratic forms. We find that up to $4$ transverse homoclinic orbits can be created near the degenerate homoclinic orbit.