Exponentially Small Splitting of Separatrices for Perturbed Integrable Standard-Like Maps

Summary. The splitting of separatrices for the standard-like maps is measured. For even entire perturbative potentials such that , where is the Borel transform of V(y) , the following asymptotic formula for the area A of the lobes between the perturbed separatrices is established: This formula agrees with the one provided by the Melnikov theory, which cannot be applied directly, due to the exponentially small size of A with respect to h . Received April 8, 1997; revised August 25, 1997, and accepted August 27, 1997     

Persistence of Hyperbolic Tori in Generalized Hamiltonian Systems

In this paper we prove the persistence of hyperbolic invariant tori in generalized Hamiltonian systems, which may admit a distinct number of action and angle variables. The systems under consideration can be odd dimensional in tangent direction. Our results generalize the well-known results of Graff and Zehnder in standard Hamiltonians. In our case the unperturbed Hamiltonian systems may be degenerate. We also consider the persistence problem of hyperbolic tori on sub manifolds.     

KAM Type-Theorem for Lower Dimensional Tori in Random Hamiltonian Systems

In this paper, we study the persistence of lower dimensional tori for random Hamiltonian systems, which shows that majority of the unperturbed tori persist as Cantor fragments of lower dimensional ones under small perturbation. Using this result, we can describe the stability of the non-autonomous dynamic systems.     

Persistence of Invariant Tori on Submanifolds in Hamiltonian Systems

Summary. Generalizing the degenerate KAM theorem under the Rüssmann nondegeneracy and the isoenergetic KAM theorem, we employ a quasilinear iterative scheme to study the persistence and frequency preservation of invariant tori on a smooth submanifold for a real analytic, nearly integrable Hamiltonian system. Under a nondegenerate condition of Rüssmann type on the submanifold, we shall show the following: (a) the majority of the unperturbed tori on the submanifold will persist; (b) the perturbed toral frequencies can be partially preserved according to the maximal degeneracy of the Hessian of the unperturbed system and be fully preserved if the Hessian is nondegenerate; (c) the Hamiltonian admits normal forms near the perturbed tori of arbitrarily prescribed high order. Under a subisoenergetic nondegenerate condition on an energy surface, we shall show that the majority of unperturbed tori give rise to invariant tori of the perturbed system of the same energy which preserve the ratio of certain components of the respective frequencies.     

Splitting of Separatrices for the Chirikov Standard Map

This paper is an English translation (made by V. Gelfreich) of V. F. Lazutkin’s work that was published in 1984 by VINITI and thus was not easily available for readers. In the paper, a formula for an exponentially small angle of separatrix splitting of the Chirikov standard map was obtained for the first time. Bibliography: 16 titles and 17 titles added by the translator.__________Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 300, 2003, pp. 25–55.     

Invariant Tori in Hamiltonian Systems with High Order Proper Degeneracy

We study the existence of quasi-periodic, invariant tori in a nearly integrable Hamiltonian system of high order proper degeneracy, i.e., the integrable part of the Hamiltonian involves several time scales and at each time scale the corresponding Hamiltonian depends on only part of the action variables. Such a Hamiltonian system arises frequently in problems of celestial mechanics, for instance, in perturbed Kepler problems like the restricted and non-restricted 3-body problems and spatial lunar problems in which several bodies with very small masses are coupled with two massive bodies and the nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems naturally involve different time scales. Using KAM method, we will show under certain higher order non-degenerate conditions of Bruno–Rüssmann type that the majority of quasi-periodic, invariant tori associated with the integrable part will persist after the non-integrable perturbation. This actually concludes the KAM metric stability for such a properly degenerate Hamiltonian system.     

A New Approach to the Parameterization Method for Lagrangian Tori of Hamiltonian Systems

We compute invariant Lagrangian tori of analytic Hamiltonian systems by the parameterization method. Under Kolmogorov’s non-degeneracy condition, we look for an invariant torus of the system carrying quasi-periodic motion with fixed frequencies. Our approach consists in replacing the invariance equation of the parameterization of the torus by three conditions which are altogether equivalent to invariance. We construct a quasi-Newton method by solving, approximately, the linearization of the functional equations defined by these three conditions around an approximate solution. Instead of dealing with the invariance error as a single source of error, we consider three different errors that take account of the Lagrangian character of the torus and the preservation of both energy and frequency. The condition of convergence reflects at which level contributes each of these errors to the total error of the parameterization. We do not require the system to be nearly integrable or to be written in action-angle variables. For nearly integrable Hamiltonians, the Lebesgue measure of the holes between invariant tori predicted by this parameterization result is of \({\mathcal {O}}(\varepsilon ^{1/2})\), where \(\varepsilon \) is the size of the perturbation. This estimate coincides with the one provided by the KAM theorem.     

Localized Stable Manifolds for Whiskered Tori in Coupled Map Lattices with Decaying Interaction

In this paper we consider lattice systems coupled by local interactions. We prove invariant manifold theorems for whiskered tori (we recall that whiskered tori are quasi-periodic solutions with exponentially contracting and expanding directions in the linearized system). The invariant manifolds we construct generalize the usual (strong) (un)stable manifolds and allow us to consider also non-resonant manifolds. We show that if the whiskered tori are localized near a collection of specific sites, then so are the invariant manifolds. We recall that the existence of localized whiskered tori has recently been proven for symplectic maps and flows in Fontich et al. (J Diff Equ, 2012), but our results do not need that the systems are symplectic. For simplicity we will present first the main results for maps, but we will show that the result for maps imply the results for flows. It is also true that the results for flows can be proved directly following the same ideas.     

On Exponentially Small Effects in Dynamical Systems with a Small Parameter

In the present paper, we obtain a theorem that enables us to treat different exponentially small effects of dynamics from a unified point of view. As an example, we discuss the problem of fast phase averaging in a nonautonomous Hamiltonian system with 3/2 degrees of freedom. Bibliography: 5 titles.__________Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 300, 2003, pp. 273–278.     

Hamiltonian Stationary Tori in the Complex Projective Plane

Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian surfaces are Lagrangian surfacesin a four-dimensional Kähler manifold which are criticalpoints of the area functional for Hamiltonian infinitesimaldeformations. In this paper we analyze these surfaces in thecomplex projective plane: in a previous work we showed thatthey correspond locally to solutions to an integrable system,formulated as a zero curvature on a (twisted) loop group. Herewe give an alternative formulation, using non-twisted loop groupsand, as an application, we show in detail why Hamiltonian stationaryLagrangian tori are finite type solutions, and eventually describethe simplest of them: the homogeneous ones. 2000 MathematicsSubject Classification 53C55 (primary), 53C42, 53C25, 58E12(secondary).     

Orbit spaces of Small Tori

Consider an algebraic torus of small dimension acting on an open subset of ?ⁿ, or more generally on a quasiaffine variety such that a separated orbit space exists. We discuss under which conditions this orbit space is quasiprojective. One of our counterexamples provides a toric variety with enough effective invariant Cartier divisors that is not embeddable into a smooth toric variety.     

Averaging for Hamiltonian Systems with One Fast Phase and Small Amplitudes

In this paper we consider an analytic Hamiltonian system differing from an integrable system by a small perturbation of order . The corresponding unperturbed integrable system is degenerate with proper and limit degeneracy: all variables, except two, are at rest and there is an elliptic singular point in the plane of these two variables. It is shown that by an analytic symplectic change of the variable, which is -close to the identity substitution, the Hamiltonian can be reduced to a form differing only by exponentially small ( ) terms from the Hamiltonian possessing the following properties: all variables, except two, change slowly at a rate of order and for the two remaining variables the origin is the point of equilibrium; moreover, the Hamiltonian depends only on the action of the system linearized about this equilibrium.     

Hamiltonian Interpolation of Splitting Approximations for Nonlinear PDEs

We consider a wide class of semilinear Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their approximation by time splitting methods. We assume that the nonlinearity is polynomial, and that the numerical trajectory remains at least uniformly integrable with respect to an eigenbasis of the linear operator (typically the Fourier basis). We show the existence of a modified interpolated Hamiltonian equation whose exact solution coincides with the discrete flow at each time step over a long time. While for standard splitting or implicit–explicit schemes, this long time depends on a cut-off condition in the high frequencies (CFL condition), we show that it can be made exponentially large with respect to the step size for a class of modified splitting schemes.     

Lyapunov–Schmidt Approach to Studying Homoclinic Splitting in Weakly Perturbed Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems

We analyze the geometric structure of the Lyapunov–Schmidt approach to studying critical manifolds of weakly perturbed Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems.     

Bifurcation of a Whitney-Smooth Family of Coisotropic Invariant Tori of a Hamiltonian System under Small Deformations of a Symplectic Structure

We investigate the influence of small deformations of a symplectic structure and perturbations of the Hamiltonian on the behavior of a completely integrable Hamiltonian system. We show that a Whitney-smooth family of coisotropic invariant tori of the perturbed system emerges in the neighborhood of a certain submanifold of the phase space.     

On Lower Dimensional Invariant Tori in Cd Reversible Systems

In this paper, a result on the persistence of lower dimensional invariant tori in Cd reversible systems is obtained under some conditions. The theorem is proved for any d which is larger than some constants.