Slow Passage Through the Nonhyperbolic Homoclinic Orbit of the Saddle-Center Hamiltonian Bifurcation

Slowly varying Hamiltonian systems, for which action is a well-known adiabatic invariant, are considered in the case where the system undergoes a saddle center bifurcation. We analyze the situation in which the solution slowly passes through the nonhyperbolic homoclinic orbit created at the saddle-center bifurcation. The solution near this homoclinic orbit consists of a large sequence of homoclinic orbits surrounded by near approaches to the autonomous nonlinear nonhyperbolic saddle point. By matching this solution to the strongly nonlinear oscillations obtained by averaging before and after crossing the homoclinic orbit, we determine the change in the action. If one orbit comes sufficiently close to the nonlinear saddle point, then that one saddle approach instead satisfies the nonautonomous first Painlevé equation, whose stable manifold of the unstable saddle (created in the saddle-center bifurcation) separates solutions approaching the stable center from those involving sequences of nearly homoclinic orbits.     

Capture into resonance and escape from it in a forced nonlinear pendulum

We study the dynamics of a nonlinear pendulum under a periodic force with small amplitude and slowly decreasing frequency. It is well known that when the frequency of the external force passes through the value of the frequency of the unperturbed pendulum’s oscillations, the pendulum can be captured into resonance. The captured pendulum oscillates in such a way that the resonance is preserved, and the amplitude of the oscillations accordingly grows. We consider this problem in the frames of a standard Hamiltonian approach to resonant phenomena in slow-fast Hamiltonian systems developed earlier, and evaluate the probability of capture into resonance. If the system passes through resonance at small enough initial amplitudes of the pendulum, the capture occurs with necessity (so-called autoresonance). In general, the probability of capture varies between one and zero, depending on the initial amplitude. We demonstrate that a pendulum captured at small values of its amplitude escapes from resonance in the domain of oscillations close to the separatrix of the pendulum, and evaluate the amplitude of the oscillations at the escape.     

Breather resonant phase locking by an external perturbation

We study the effect of the resonant phase locking in the problem of the sine-Gordon equation breather under the action of a small oscillating external force with slowly varying frequency. We obtain equations determining the time evolution of the parameters of the perturbed breather. We describe the regular asymptotic procedure of averaging such equations and show that the averaged equations in the leading order already well describe the phenomenon of resonant phase locking in which the breather oscillations are strongly excited. We obtain necessary and sucient conditions for the phase locking relating the rate of the perturbation frequency variation and its amplitude to the initial data of the breather. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 152, No. 2, pp. 356–367, August, 2007.     

Asymptotic Solution of the Autoresonance Problem

We study the problem of forced oscillations near a stable equilibrium of a two-dimensional nonlinear Hamiltonian system of equations. A given exciting force is represented as rapid oscillations with a small amplitude and a slowly varying frequency. We study the conditions under which such a perturbation makes the phase trajectory of the system recede from the original equilibrium point to a distance of the order of unity. To study the problem, we construct asymptotic solutions using a small amplitude parameter. We present the solution for not-too-small values of time outside the original boundary layer.     

Nonlinear Cusped Caustics for Dispersive Waves

A multiple-scale perturbation analysis for slowly varying weakly nonlinear dispersive waves predicts that the wave number breaks or folds and becomes triple-valued. This theory has some difficulties, since the wave amplitude becomes infinite. Energy first focuses along a cusped caustic (an envelope of the rays or characteristics). The method of matched asymptotic expansions shows that a thin focusing region with relatively large wave amplitudes, valid near the cusped caustic, is described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NSE). Solutions of the NSE are obtained from an asymptotic expansion of an equivalent linear singular integral equation related to a Riemann-Hilbert problem. In this way connection formulas before and after focusing are derived. We show that a slowly varying nearly monochromatic wave train evolves into a triple-phased slowly varying similarity solution of the NSE. Three weakly nonlinear waves are simultaneously superimposed after focusing, giving meaning to a triple-valued wave number. Nonlinear phase shifts are obtained which reduce to the linear phase shifts previously described by the asymptotic expansion of a Pearcey integral.     

A theory for n-dimensional nonlinear dynamics on continuous vector fields

This paper systematically presents a theory for n-dimensional nonlinear dynamics on continuous vector fields. In this paper, a different view to look into the fundamental theory in dynamics is presented. The ideas presented herein are less formal and rigorous in an informal and lively manner. The ideas may give some inspirations in the field of nonlinear dynamics. The concepts of local and global flows are introduced to interpret the complexity of flows in nonlinear dynamic systems. Further, the global tangency and transversality of flows to the separatrix surface in nonlinear dynamical systems are discussed, and the corresponding necessary and sufficient conditions for such global tangency and transversality are presented. The ε-domains of flows in phase space are introduced from the first integral manifold surface. The domain of chaos in nonlinear dynamic systems is also defined, and such a domain is called a chaotic layer or band. The first integral quantity increment is introduced as an important quantity. Based on different reference surfaces, all possible expressions for the first integral quantity increment are given. The stability of equilibriums and periodic flows in nonlinear dynamical systems are discussed through the first integral quantity increment. Compared to the Lyapunov stability conditions, the weak stability conditions for equilibriums and periodic flows are developed. The criteria for resonances in the stochastic and resonant, chaotic layers are developed via the first integral quantity increment. To discuss the complexity of flows in nonlinear dynamical systems, the first integral manifold surface is used as a reference surface to develop the mapping structures of periodic and chaotic flows. The invariant set fragmentation caused by the grazing bifurcation is discussed. The global grazing bifurcation is a key to determine the global transversality to the separatrix. The local grazing bifurcation on the first integral manifold surface in a single domain without separatrix is a mechanism for the transition from one resonant periodic flow to another one. Such a transition may occur through chaos. The global grazing bifurcation on the separatrix surface may imply global chaos. The complexity of the global chaos is measured by invariant sets on the separatrix surface. The invariant set fragmentation of strange attractors on the separatrix surface is central to investigate the complexity of the global chaotic flows in nonlinear dynamical systems. Finally, the theory developed herein is applied to perturbed nonlinear Hamiltonian systems as an example. The global tangency and tranversality of the perturbed Hamiltonian are presented. The first integral quantity increment (or energy increment) for 2n-dimensional perturbed nonlinear Hamiltonian systems is developed. Such an energy increment is used to develop the iterative mapping relation for chaos and periodic motions in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. Especially, the first integral quantity increment (or energy increment) for two-dimensional perturbed nonlinear Hamiltonian systems is derived, and from the energy increment, the Melnikov function is obtained under a certain perturbation approximation. Because of applying the perturbation approximation, the Melnikov function only can be used for a rough estimate of the energy increment. Such a function cannot be used to determine the global tangency and transversality to the separatrix surface. The global tangency and transversality to the separatrix surface only can be determined by the corresponding necessary and sufficient conditions rather than the first integral quantity increment. Using the first integral quantity increment, limit cycles in two-dimensional nonlinear systems is discussed briefly. The first integral quantity of any n-dimensional nonlinear dynamical system is very crucial to investigate the corresponding nonlinear dynamics. The theory presented in this paper needs to be further developed and to be treated more rigorously in mathematics.     

完全与不完全的随机网

本文证明了鞍点连线网在小扰动下可以产生完全随机网和不完全随机网两种情况,并按照动力系统理论讨论了两类随机网的结构.     

Nonlinear dispersive wave problems

In this paper we consider a certain class of nonlinear dispersive wave problems having solutions in the form of slowly varying wavetrains. We develop a procedure generating successively formal asymptotic approximations of these wavetrains of increasing asymptotic accuracy. In order to obtain formal asymptotic approximations we apply the two variable construction technique as developed in [3] for a class of perturbed oscillations described by nonlinear ordinary differential equations containing a small nonnegative perturbation parameter ?.     

Existence Theorems and Estimates of Solutions for Equations of Principal Resonance

In this paper, we study systems of nonlinear, nonautonomous, ordinary differential equations that appear in the theory of averaging of nonlinear oscillations. We prove existence theorems for them and obtain conditions under which variables of the type of amplitude (or energy) are uniformly bounded with respect to time.     

Uniqueness of Limit Cycle for the Quadratic Systems with Weak Saddle and Focus

It is proved that the quadratic system with a weak saddle has at most one limit cycle,andthat if this system has a separatrix cycle passing through the weak saddle,then the stability of theseparatrix cycle is contrary to that of the singular point surrounded by it.     

Uniqueness of Limit Cycle for the Quadratic Systems with Weak Saddle and Focus

It is proved that the quadratic system with a weak saddle has at most one limit cycle, and that if this system has a separatrix cycle passing through the weak saddle, then the stability of the separatrix cycle is contrary to that of the singular point surrounded by it.     

Autoresonance in a dynamic system

Results on the asymptotic analysis of a model of autoresonance using a natural small parameter, the amplitude of forcing oscillations, are presented. The given forcing perturbation is rapidly oscillating oscillations with small amplitude and slow varying frequency. The goal of the paper is to reveal conditions under which the trajectory of the system goes away from the initial equilibrium point by a distance of order 1 under the influence of such a perturbation.Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 5, Asymptotic Methods, 2003.     

On the probability of the outcomes in buckling of an elastic beam

A nonlinear time-varying one-degree-of-freedom system, which is used for the modelling of the buckling of a loaded beam in Euler??s problem, is considered. For a slowly changing load, the deterministic approach in this problem fails if the trajectories pass through the separatrix. An expression for the probability of possible outcomes of the evolution of the oscillations is obtained. The analytical and numerical results are compared.     

Hölder Continuity of the Saddle Point Set for Real-Valued Functions

This paper is concerned with Hölder continuity of the solution to a saddle point problem. Some new su?cient conditions for the uniqueness and Hölder continuity of the solution for a perturbed saddle point problem are established. Applications of the result on Hölder continuity of the solution for perturbed constrained optimization problems are presented under mild conditions. Examples are given to illustrate the obtained results.     

Autoresonance excitation of a soliton of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

The action of an external parametric perturbation with slowly changing frequency on a soliton of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation is studied. Equations for the time evolution of the parameters of the perturbed soliton are derived. Conditions for the soliton phase locking are found, which relate the rate of change of the perturbation frequency, its amplitude, the wave number, and the phase to the initial data of the soliton. The cases when the initial amplitude of the soliton is small and when the amplitude of the soliton is of the order of unity are considered.     

The Poincaré-Mel'nikov geometric analysis of the transversal splitting of manifolds of slowly perturbed nonlinear dynamical systems. I

On the basis of the geometric ideas of Poincaré and Mel'nikov, we study sufficient criteria of the transversal splitting of heteroclinic separatrix manifolds of slowly perturbed nonlinear dynamical systems with a small parameter. An example of adiabatic invariance breakdown is considered for a system on a plane.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 1668–1681, December, 1993.     

Chaotic dynamics of homogeneous Yang-Mills fields with two degrees of freedom

In the present paper, we consider a scenario of transition to chaotic dynamics in the Hamiltonian system of homogeneous Yang-Mills fields with two degrees of freedom in the case of the Higgs mechanism. We show that in such a system, as well as in other Hamiltonian and conservative systems of equations, the nonlocal effect of multiplication of hyperbolic and elliptic cycles and tori around elliptic cycles in neighborhoods of the separatrix surfaces of hyperbolic cycles plays a key role on the initial stage of transition from a regular motion to a chaotic one. We observe that the new elliptic and hyperbolic cycles of the Hamiltonian system are generated as stable and saddle cycles of the extended dissipative system of equations not only as a result of saddle-node bifurcations but also as a result of fork-type bifurcations.     

On the orbital stability of planar periodic motions of a rigid body in the Bobylev-Steklov case

We deal with the problem of orbital stability of pendulum-like periodic motions of a heavy rigid body with a fixed point. We suppose that a mass geometry corresponds to the Bobylev-Steklov case. The stability problem is solved in nonlinear setting. In the case of small amplitude oscillations and rotations with large angular velocities the small parameter can be introduced and the problem can be investigated analytically. In the case of unspecified oscillation amplitude or rotational angular velocity the problem is reduced to analysis of stability of a fixed point of the symplectic map generated by the equations of the perturbed motion. The coefficients of the symplectic map are determined numerically. Rigorous results on the orbital stability or instability of unperturbed motion are obtained by analyzing these coefficients.