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Non-integrability and chaos for natural Hamiltonian systems with a random potential

Dynamical Systems 2022-04-13 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Consider the ensemble of Gaussian random potentials {VL(q)}L=1\{V^L(q)\}_{L=1}^\infty on the dd-dimensional torus where, essentially, VL(q)V^L(q) is a real-valued trigonometric polynomial of degree LL whose coefficients are independent standard normal variables. Our main result ensures that, with a probability tending to 1 as LL\to\infty, the dynamical system associated with the natural Hamiltonian function defined by this random potential, HL:=12p2+VL(q)H^L:=\frac12|p|^2+ V^L(q), exhibits a number of chaotic regions which coexist with a positive-volume set of invariant tori. In particular, these systems are typically neither integrable with non-degenerate first integrals nor ergodic. An analogous result for random natural Hamiltonian systems defined on the cotangent bundle of an arbitrary compact Riemannian manifold is presented too.

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@article{arxiv.2204.05964,
  title  = {Non-integrability and chaos for natural Hamiltonian systems with a random potential},
  author = {Alberto Enciso and Daniel Peralta-Salas and Álvaro Romaniega},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05964},
  year   = {2022}
}