Riemannian theory of Hamiltonian chaos and Lyapunov exponents

Details Riemannian theory of Hamiltonian chaos and Lyapunov exponents Riemannian theory of Hamiltonian chaos and Lyapunov exponents

1996-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9609010v1

Physical Review E 54, 5969 (1996)

Physics

Condensed Matter

RevTex, 40 pages, 8 PostScript figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E (scheduled for November 1996)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.54.5969

This paper deals with the problem of analytically computing the largest Lyapunov exponent for many degrees of freedom Hamiltonian systems. This aim is succesfully reached within a theoretical framework that makes use of a geometrization of newtonian dynamics in the language of Riemannian geometry. A new point of view about the origin of chaos in these systems is obtained independently of homoclinic intersections. Chaos is here related to curvature fluctuations of the manifolds whose geodesics are natural motions and is described by means of Jacobi equation for geodesic spread. Under general conditions ane effective stability equation is derived; an analytic formula for the growth-rate of its solutions is worked out and applied to the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam beta model and to a chain of coupled rotators. An excellent agreement is found the theoretical prediction and the values of the Lyapunov exponent obtained by numerical simulations for both models.

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