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Action-angle Variables for Generic 1D Mechanical Systems

Dynamical Systems 2020-04-02 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider a 1D mechanical system Hˉ(P,Q)=P2+Gˉ(Q)\bar {\mathtt H}(\mathtt P,\mathtt Q)=\mathtt P^2+\bar {\mathtt G}(\mathtt Q) in action-angle variable (P,Q)(\mathtt P,\mathtt Q) where Gˉ\bar {\mathtt G} is a 2π2\pi-periodic analytic function with non degenerate critical points. Then, we consider a small analytic perturbation of Hˉ\bar {\mathtt H} of the form H(P,Q;P^)=P2+Gˉ(Q)+ηF(P,Q;P^)=:P2+G(P,Q;P^),η1 ,{\mathtt H}^*(\mathtt P,\mathtt Q;\hat{\mathtt P}) = \mathtt P^2+\bar {\mathtt G}(\mathtt Q)+ \eta {\mathtt F} (\mathtt P,\mathtt Q;\hat{\mathtt P})=:\mathtt P^2 + {\mathtt G}^*(\mathtt P,\mathtt Q;\hat{\mathtt P})\,, \qquad \eta\ll 1\ , where the perturbed potential G {\mathtt G}^* may depend on the action P\mathtt P and also on parameters P^\hat{\mathtt P} ("the adiabatic actions"); indeed, this is the form of a finite dimensional mechanical system close to an exact simple resonance after averaging over fast angles and disregarding the exponentially small remainder, see [5]. Up to a finite number of separatrices and elliptic/hyperbolic points the phase space of H{\mathtt H}^* is divided into a finite number of open connected components foliated by invariant circles. On every connected component we perform a (Arnold-Liouville) symplectic action-angle transformation which integrates the system. We give a complete and quantitative description of the analyticity properties of such integrating transformations, estimating, in particular, how such transformations differ from the integrating transformation for Hˉ\bar {\mathtt H}; compare Theorem 6.1 below.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2003.05211,
  title  = {Action-angle Variables for Generic 1D Mechanical Systems},
  author = {Luca Biasco and Luigi Chierchia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05211},
  year   = {2020}
}

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128 pages, 2 figures

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