Geometric Interpretation of Chaos in Two-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems

Details Geometric Interpretation of Chaos in Two-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems Geometric Interpretation of Chaos in Two-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems

1997-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707114v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages plus 9 figures, LaTeX, no macros required to appear in Physical Review E

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10.1103/PhysRevE.56.2722

Time-independent Hamiltonian flows are viewed as geodesic flows in a curved manifold, so that the onset of chaos hinges on properties of the curvature two-form entering into the Jacobi equation. Attention focuses on ensembles of orbit segments evolved in 2-D potentials, examining how various orbital properties correlate with the mean value and dispersion, and k, of the trace K of the curvature. Unlike most analyses, which have attributed chaos to negative curvature, this work exploits the fact that geodesics can be chaotic even if K is everywhere positive, chaos arising as a parameteric instability triggered by regular variations in K along the orbit. For ensembles of fixed energy, with both regular and chaotic segments, simple patterns connect the values of and k for different segments, both with each other and with the short time Lyapunov exponent X. Often, but not always, there is a near one-to- one correlation between and k, a plot of these quantities approximating a simple curve. X varies smoothly along this curve, chaotic segments located furthest from the regular regions tending systematically to have the largest X's. For regular orbits, and k also vary smoothly with ``distance'' from the chaotic phase space regions, as probed, e.g., by the location of the initial condition on a surface of section. Many of these observed properties can be understood qualitatively in terms of a one-dimensional Mathieu equation.

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