Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Oct 2000
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HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS AND CELESTIAL MECHANICS (HAMSYS-98). Proceedings of the III International Symposium. Held 7-11 December 1998
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We consider a perturbation of an integrable Hamiltonian system, possessing hyperbolic invariant tori with coincident whiskers. Following an idea due to Eliasson, we introduce a splitting potential whose gradient gives the splitting distance between the perturbed stable and unstable whiskers. The homoclinic orbits to the perturbed whiskered tori are the critical points of the splitting potential, and therefore their existence is ensured in both the regular (or strongly hyperbolic, or a-priori unstable) and the singular (or weakly hyperbolic, or a-priori stable) case. The singular case is a model of a nearly-integrable Hamiltonian near a single resonance. In the regular case, the Melnikov potential is a first order approximation of the splitting potential, and the standard Melnikov (vector) function is simply the gradient of the Melnikov potential. Non-degenerate critical points of the Melnikov potential give rise to transverse homoclinic orbits. Explicit computations are carried out for some examples.
Delshams Amadeu
Gutiérrez Pere
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