Numerical continuation of families of heteroclinic connections between periodic orbits in a Hamiltonian system

This paper is devoted to the numerical computation and continuation of families of heteroclinic connections between hyperbolic periodic orbits (POs) of a Hamiltonian system. We describe a method that requires the numerical continuation of a nonlinear system that involves the initial conditions of th...

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Autores: Barrabés Vera, Esther, Mondelo, Josep M., Ollé Torner, Mercè
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/12690
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12690
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anàlisi numèrica
Numerical analysis
Planetes -- Òrbites
Planets -- Orbits
Dinàmica estel·lar
Stellar dynamics
Mecànica celest
Celestial mechanics
Sistemes hamiltonians
Hamiltonian systems
Sistemes dinàmics diferenciables
Differentiable dynamical systems
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Sumario:This paper is devoted to the numerical computation and continuation of families of heteroclinic connections between hyperbolic periodic orbits (POs) of a Hamiltonian system. We describe a method that requires the numerical continuation of a nonlinear system that involves the initial conditions of the two POs, the linear approximations of the corresponding manifolds and a point in a given Poincaré section where the unstable and stable manifolds match. The method is applied to compute families of heteroclinic orbits between planar Lyapunov POs around the collinear equilibrium points of the restricted three-body problem in different scenarios. In one of them, for the Sun-Jupiter mass parameter, we provide energy ranges for which the transition between different resonances is possible