Exponentially small splitting of separatrices associated to 3D whiskered tori with cubic frequencies

We study the splitting of invariant manifolds of whiskered (hyperbolic) tori with three frequencies in a nearly-integrable Hamiltonian system, whose hyperbolic part is given by a pendulum. We consider a 3-dimensional torus with a fast frequency vector ¿/ev, with ¿=(1,O,O˜) where O is a cubic irratio...

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Autores: Delshams Valdés, Amadeu|||0000-0003-4134-8882, Gonchenko, Marina, Gutiérrez Serrés, Pere|||0000-0001-8027-1166
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/331406
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/331406
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00220-020-03832-y
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dinamics
Hamiltonian systems
Splitting of separatrices
Transverse homoclinic orbits
Melnikov integrals
Cubic frequency vectors
Sistemes dinàmics
Sistemes hamiltonians
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Equacions diferencials i integrals::Sistemes dinàmics
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Sumario:We study the splitting of invariant manifolds of whiskered (hyperbolic) tori with three frequencies in a nearly-integrable Hamiltonian system, whose hyperbolic part is given by a pendulum. We consider a 3-dimensional torus with a fast frequency vector ¿/ev, with ¿=(1,O,O˜) where O is a cubic irrational number whose two conjugates are complex, and the components of ¿ generate the field Q(O). A paradigmatic case is the cubic golden vector, given by the (real) number O satisfying O3=1-O, and O˜=O2. For such 3-dimensional frequency vectors, the standard theory of continued fractions cannot be applied, so we develop a methodology for determining the behavior of the small divisors ¿k,¿¿, k¿Z3. Applying the Poincaré–Melnikov method, this allows us to carry out a careful study of the dominant harmonic (which depends on e) of the Melnikov function, obtaining an asymptotic estimate for the maximal splitting distance, which is exponentially small in e, and valid for all sufficiently small values of e. This estimate behaves like exp{-h1(e)/e1/6} and we provide, for the first time in a system with 3 frequencies, an accurate description of the (positive) function h1(e) in the numerator of the exponent, showing that it can be explicitly constructed from the resonance properties of the frequency vector ¿, and proving that it is a quasiperiodic function (and not periodic) with respect to lne. In this way, we emphasize the strong dependence of the estimates for the splitting on the arithmetic properties of the frequencies.