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Generic global diffusion for analytic uncoupled a priori unstable systems

Dynamical Systems 2025-08-22 v1

Abstract

We show that given a general uncoupled a priori unstable Hamiltonian 12p2+V(q)+G(I)+ϵh(p,q,I,φ,t), \frac12 p^2 + V(q) + G(I) + \epsilon h(p, q, I, \varphi, t), where hh is a generic Ma\~n\'e analytic function and ϵ\epsilon is small enough, there is an orbit for which the momentum II changes by any arbitrarily prescribed value. We call this phenomenon as global diffusion since the size of the change in II is independent of both ϵ\epsilon and hh. The fact that the pendulum and rotor variables are uncoupled is used essentially in our proof. The proof is based on simple and constructive geometrical methods, carefully studying the reduced Poincar\'e functions of the problem which generate the corresponding scattering maps.

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@article{arxiv.2412.11349,
  title  = {Generic global diffusion for analytic uncoupled a priori unstable systems},
  author = {Amadeu Delshams and Ke Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11349},
  year   = {2025}
}
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