A Remark on the Onset of Resonance Overlap

Chirikov’s celebrated criterion of resonance overlap has been widely used in celestial mechanics and Hamiltonian dynamics to detect global instability, but is rarely rigorous. We introduce two simple Hamiltonian systems, each depending on two parameters measuring, respectively, the distance to reson...

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Autores: Fejoz, Jacques, Guàrdia Munárriz, Marcel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/207620
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/207620
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sistemes hamiltonians
Sistemes dinàmics diferenciables
Pertorbació (Matemàtica)
Hamiltonian systems
Differentiable dynamical systems
Perturbation (Mathematics)
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Sumario:Chirikov’s celebrated criterion of resonance overlap has been widely used in celestial mechanics and Hamiltonian dynamics to detect global instability, but is rarely rigorous. We introduce two simple Hamiltonian systems, each depending on two parameters measuring, respectively, the distance to resonance overlap and nonintegrability. Within some thin region of the parameter plane, classical perturbation theory shows the existence of global instability and symbolic dynamics, thus illustrating Chirikov’s criterion.