Geometrical properties of local dynamics in Hamiltonian systems: the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI) method

Details Geometrical properties of local dynamics in Hamiltonian systems: the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI) method Geometrical properties of local dynamics in Hamiltonian systems: the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI) method

2007-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3155v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

45 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Physica D

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physd.2007.04.004

We investigate the detailed dynamics of multidimensional Hamiltonian systems by studying the evolution of volume elements formed by unit deviation vectors about their orbits. The behavior of these volumes is strongly influenced by the regular or chaotic nature of the motion, the number of deviation vectors, their linear (in)dependence and the spectrum of Lyapunov exponents. The different time evolution of these volumes can be used to identify rapidly and efficiently the nature of the dynamics, leading to the introduction of quantities that clearly distinguish between chaotic behavior and quasiperiodic motion on $N$-dimensional tori. More specifically we introduce the Generalized Alignment Index of order $k$ (GALI$_k$) as the volume of a generalized parallelepiped, whose edges are $k$ initially linearly independent unit deviation vectors from the studied orbit whose magnitude is normalized to unity at every time step. The GALI$_k$ is a generalization of the Smaller Alignment Index (SALI) (GALI$_2$ $\propto$ SALI). However, GALI$_k$ provides significantly more detailed information on the local dynamics, allows for a faster and clearer distinction between order and chaos than SALI and works even in cases where the SALI method is inconclusive.

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