Isolating block and existence of connecting orbits

Using the notion of an isolating block, some existence criteria of trajectories connecting two critical pints of planar dynaniiral systems are given. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Connecting orbits among Denjoy minimal sets for monotone twist map

In a Birkhoff region of instability for an exact area-preserving twist map, we construct some orbits connecting distinct Denjoy minimal sets. These sets correspond to the local, instead of global minimum of the Lagrangian action. In the earlier work, Mather constructed connecting orbits among Aubry-Mather sets and the global minimizer of the Lagrangian action.     

Successive continuation for locating connecting orbits

A successive continuation method for locating connecting orbits in parametrized systems of autonomous ODEs is considered. A local convergence analysis is presented and several illustrative numerical examples are given. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Noncommutative Integrability,Moment Map and Geodesic Flows

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship betweencommutative and noncommutative integrability of Hamiltonian systemsand to construct new examples of integrable geodesic flows onRiemannian manifolds. In particular, we prove that the geodesic flowof the bi-invariant metric on any bi-quotient of a compact Lie group isintegrable in the noncommutative sense by means of polynomial integrals, andtherefore, in the classical commutative sense by means ofC -smooth integrals.     

Lie superalgebras, Clifford algebras, induced modules and nilpotent orbits

Let g be a classical simple Lie superalgebra. To every nilpotent orbit O in g₀ we associate a Clifford algebra over the field of rational functions on O. We find the rank, k(O) of the bilinear form defining this Clifford algebra, and deduce a lower bound on the multiplicity of a U(g)-module with O or an orbital subvariety of O as associated variety. In some cases we obtain modules where the lower bound on multiplicity is attained using parabolic induction. The invariant k(O) is in many cases, equal to the odd dimension of the orbit G⋅O, where G is a Lie supergroup with Lie superalgebra g.     

Birkhoff’s conjecture and almost periodic motions on torusT 2

The relation between rotation number and almost periodic motion for almost allC ⁵ systems onT ² which have no critical points is established. The result that every solution of such systems is a Liapunov stable and almost periodic motion is proved. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

The necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic orbits in a Lotka-Volterra system

By extending Darboux method to three dimension, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic orbits in three species Lotka-Volterra systems with the same intrinsic growth rates. Therefore, all the published sufficient or necessary conditions for the existence of periodic orbits of the system are included in our results. Furthermore, we prove the stability of periodic orbits. Hopf bifurcation is shown for the emergence of periodic orbits and new phenomenon is presented: at critical values, each equilibrium are surrounded by either equilibria or periodic orbits.     

Geodesic flows, bi-Hamiltonian structure and coupled KdV type systems

We show that all the Antonowicz-Fordy type coupled KdV equations have the same symmetry group and similar bi-Hamiltonian structures. It turns out that their configuration space is , where is the Bott-Virasoro group of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of the circle, and all these systems can be interpreted as equations of a geodesic flow with respect to L² metric on the semidirect product space .     

Zero entropy, non-integrable geodesic flows and a non-commutative rotation vector

Let be a -step nilpotent Lie algebra; we say is non-integrable if, for a generic pair of points , the isotropy algebras do not commute: . Theorem: If is a simply-connected -step nilpotent Lie group, is non-integrable, is a cocompact subgroup, and is a left-invariant Riemannian metric, then the geodesic flow of on is neither Liouville nor non-commutatively integrable with first integrals. The proof uses a generalization of the rotation vector pioneered by Benardete and Mitchell.