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Proof of Nishida's conjecture on anharmonic lattices

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We prove Nishida's 1971 conjecture stating that almost all low-energetic motions of the anharmonic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice with fixed endpoints are quasi-periodic. The proof is based on the formal computations of Nishida, the KAM theorem, discrete symmetry considerations and an algebraic trick that considerably simplifies earlier results.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0506024,
  title  = {Proof of Nishida's conjecture on anharmonic lattices},
  author = {Bob Rink},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0506024},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication in Comm. Math. Phys