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Geometry of slow-fast Hamiltonian systems and Painlev\'e equations

Dynamical Systems 2015-11-30 v1

Abstract

In the first part of the paper we introduce some geometric tools needed to describe slow-fast Hamiltonian systems on smooth manifolds. We start with a smooth Poisson bundle p:MBp: M\to B of a regular (i.e. of constant rank) Poisson manifold (M,ω)(M,\omega) over a smooth symplectic manifold (B,λ)(B,\lambda), the foliation into leaves of the bundle coincides with the symplectic foliation generated by the Poisson structure on MM. This defines a singular symplectic structure Ωε=\Omega_{\varepsilon}= ω+ε1pλ\omega + \varepsilon^{-1}p^*\lambda on MM for any positive small ε\varepsilon, where pλp^*\lambda is a lift of 2-form λ\lambda on MM. Given a smooth Hamiltonian HH on MM one gets a slow-fast Hamiltonian system w.r.t. Ωε\Omega_{\varepsilon}. We define a slow manifold SMSM of this system. Assuming SMSM to be a smooth submanifold, we define a slow Hamiltonian flow on SMSM. The second part of the paper deals with singularities of the restriction of pp on SMSM and their relations with the description of the system near them. It appears, if dimM=4,\dim M = 4, dimB=2\dim B = 2 and Hamilton function HH is generic, then behavior of the system near singularities of the fold type is described in the principal approximation by the equation Painlev\'e-I, but if a singular point is a cusp, then the related equation is Painlev\'e-II. This fact for particular types of Hamiltonian systems with one and a half degrees of freedom was discovered earlier by R.Haberman.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08454,
  title  = {Geometry of slow-fast Hamiltonian systems and Painlev\'e equations},
  author = {L. M. Lerman and E. I. Yakovlev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08454},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages, 2 figures