On homoclinic bifurcation emanating from Takens-Bogdanov points in Hamiltonian systems

The paper is devoted to studying the bifurcation of periodic and homoclinic orbits in a 2n-dimensional Hamiltonian system with 1 parameter from a TB-point (Hamiltonian saddle node). In addition to the proof of existence, the paper gives an expansion formula of the bifurcating homoclinic orbits. With the help of center manifold reduction and a blow up transformation, the problem is focused on studying a planar Hamiltonian system, the proof for the perturbed homoclinic and periodic orbits is elementary in the sense that it uses only implicit function arguments. Two applications to travelling waves in PDEs are shown.     

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.     

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。     

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 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.     

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.     

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。     

Existence of even homoclinic orbits for second-order Hamiltonian systems

Some existence theorems for even homoclinic orbits are obtained for a class of second-order nonautonomous Hamiltonian systems with symmetric potentials under a class of new superquadratic conditions. A homoclinic orbit is obtained as a limit of solutions of a certain sequence of nil-boundary-value problems which are obtained by the minimax methods.     

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.     

Existence of homoclinic solutions for a class of second-order Hamiltonian systems

A new result for existence of homoclinic orbits is obtained for the second-order Hamiltonian systems under a class of new superquadratic conditions. A homoclinic orbit is obtained as a limit of solutions of a certain sequence of boundary-value problems which are obtained by the minimax methods.     

Exponentially Small Splitting of Separatrices for Whiskered Tori in Hamiltonian Systems

We study the existence of transverse homoclinic orbits in a singular or weakly hyperbolic Hamiltonian with three degrees of freedom as a model for the behavior of a nearly integrable Hamiltonian near a simple resonance. The considered example consists of an integrable Hamiltonian having a two-dimensional hyperbolic invariant torus with fast frequencies and coincident whiskers or separatrices, plus a perturbation of order μ = ε^p giving rise to an exponentially small splitting of separatrices. We show that asymptotic estimates for the transversality of the intersections can be obtained if ω satisfies certain arithmetic properties. More precisely, we assume that ω is a quadratic vector (i.e., the frequency ratio is a quadratic irrational number) and generalizes good arithmetic properties of the golden vector. We provide a sufficient condition on the quadratic vector ω ensuring that the Poincare-Melnikov method (used for the golden vector in a previous work) can be applied to establish the existence of transverse homoclinic orbits and, in a more restricted case, their continuation for all values of ε → 0. Bibliography: 22 titles.__________Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 300, 2003, pp. 87–121     

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.     

Homoclinic orbits in the dynamics of resonantly driven coupled pendula

We present a plethora of homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits that exist in the phase space of a weakly nonlinear model describing small oscillations of two resonantly driven coupled pendula. These orbits connect equilibria in a resonance band, which is contained in an invariant plane, and is born under perturbation out of a circle of equilibria. Their existence is shown by using a combination of the Melnikov method and singular perturbation techniques.     

Analytic and algebraic conditions for bifurcations of homoclinic orbits I: Saddle equilibria

We study bifurcations of homoclinic orbits to hyperbolic saddle equilibria in a class of four-dimensional systems which may be Hamiltonian or not. Only one parameter is enough to treat these types of bifurcations in Hamiltonian systems but two parameters are needed in general systems. We apply a version of Melnikov?s method due to Gruendler to obtain saddle-node and pitchfork types of bifurcation results for homoclinic orbits. Furthermore we prove that if these bifurcations occur, then the variational equations around the homoclinic orbits are integrable in the meaning of differential Galois theory under the assumption that the homoclinic orbits lie on analytic invariant manifolds. We illustrate our theories with an example which arises as stationary states of coupled real Ginzburg–Landau partial differential equations, and demonstrate the theoretical results by numerical ones.     

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

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Transverse intersections between invariant manifolds of doubly hyperbolic invariant tori, via the Poincaré-Mel’nikov method

We consider a perturbation of an integrable Hamiltonian system having an equilibrium point of elliptic-hyperbolic type, having a homoclinic orbit. More precisely, we consider an (n + 2)-degree-of-freedom near integrable Hamiltonian with n centers and 2 saddles, and assume that the homoclinic orbit is preserved under the perturbation. On the center manifold near the equilibrium, there is a Cantorian family of hyperbolic KAM tori, and we study the homoclinic intersections between the stable and unstable manifolds associated to such tori. We establish that, in general, the manifolds intersect along transverse homoclinic orbits. In a more concrete model, such homoclinic orbits can be detected, in a first approximation, from nondegenerate critical points of a Mel’nikov potential. We provide bounds for the number of transverse homoclinic orbits using that, in general, the potential will be a Morse function (which gives a lower bound) and can be approximated by a trigonometric polynomial (which gives an upper bound).     

HOMOCLINIC ORBITS FOR A CLASS OF HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS WITH POTENTIALS CHANGING SIGN

In this paper, we prove the existence of nontrivial homoclinic orbits for a class of Hamiltonian systems with potential changing sign. We use Mountain Pass Lemma.     

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.     

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.     

Horseshoes for the nearly symmetric heavy top

We prove the existence of horseshoes in the nearly symmetric heavy top. This problem was previously addressed but treated inappropriately due to a singularity of the equations of motion. We introduce an (artificial) inclined plane to remove this singularity and use a Melnikov-type approach to show that there exist transverse homoclinic orbits to periodic orbits on four-dimensional level sets. The price we pay for removing the singularity is that the Hamiltonian system becomes a three-degree-of-freedom system with an additional first integral, unlike the two-degree-of-freedom formulation in the classical treatment. We therefore have to analyze three-dimensional stable and unstable manifolds of periodic orbits in a six-dimensional phase space. A new Melnikov-type technique is developed for this situation. Numerical evidence for the existence of transverse homoclinic orbits on a four-dimensional level set is also given.