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On symplectic dynamics near a homoclinic orbit to 1-elliptic fixed point

Dynamical Systems 2015-01-26 v1

Abstract

We study the orbit behavior of a four dimensional smooth symplectic diffeomorphism ff near a homoclinic orbit Γ\Gamma to an 1-elliptic fixed point under some natural genericity assumptions. 1-elliptic fixed point has two real eigenvalues out of unit circle and two others on the unit circle. Thus there is a smooth 2-dimensional center manifold WcW^c where the restriction of the diffeomorphism has the elliptic fixed point supposed to be generic (no strong resonances and first Birkhoff coefficient is nonzero). Moser's theorem guarantees the existence of a positive measure set of KAM invariant curves. WcW^c itself is a normally hyperbolic manifold in the whole phase space and due to Fenichel results every point on WcW^c has 1-dimensional stable and unstable smooth invariant curves forming two smooth foliations. In particular, each KAM invariant curve has stable and unstable smooth 2-dimensional invariant manifolds being Lagrangian. The related stable and unstable manifolds of WcW^c are 3-dimensional smooth manifolds which are supposed to be transverse along homoclinic orbit Γ\Gamma. One of our theorems presents conditions under which each KAM invariant curve on WcW^c in a sufficiently small neighborhood of Γ\Gamma has four transverse homoclinic orbits. Another result ensures that under some Birkhoff genericity assumption for the restriction of ff on WcW^c saddle periodic orbits in resonance zones also have homoclinic orbits though its transversality or tangency cannot be verified directly.

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@article{arxiv.1501.05935,
  title  = {On symplectic dynamics near a homoclinic orbit to 1-elliptic fixed point},
  author = {L. Lerman and A. Markova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.05935},
  year   = {2015}
}

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39 pages, 4 figures