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We analyze the structure and stickiness in the chaotic components of generic Hamiltonian systems with divided phase space. Following the method proposed recently in Lozej and Robnik [Phys. Rev. E 98, 022220 (2018)], the sticky regions are…

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Ensembles of particles rotating in a two-dimensional fluid can exhibit chaotic dynamics yet develop signatures of hidden order. Such "rotors" are found in the natural world spanning vastly disparate length scales - from the rotor proteins…

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Many chaotic dynamical systems of physical interest present a strong form of nonhyperbolicity called unstable dimension variability (UDV), for which the chaotic invariant set contains periodic orbits possessing different numbers of unstable…

The orbits of stars in galaxies are generically chaotic: the chaotic behavior arises in part from the intrinsically grainy nature of a potential that is composed of point masses. Even if the potential is assumed to be smooth, however,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Monica Valluri , David Merritt

We study the dynamics in the neighborhood of fixed points in a 4D symplectic map by means of the color and rotation method. We compare the results with the corresponding cases encountered in galactic type potentials and we find that they…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Zachilas , M. Katsanikas , P. A. Patsis

Invariant manifolds are the skeleton of the chaotic dynamics in Hamiltonian systems. In Celestial Mechanics, for instance, these geometrical structures are applied to a multitude of physical and practical problems, such as to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-10 Vitor Martins de Oliveira

We investigate the dynamical response of stellar orbits in a rotating barred galaxy potential to the perturbation by a nuclear gaseous ring. The change in 3D periodic orbit families is examined as the gas accumulates near the inner Lindblad…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. Heller , I. Shlosman

We present and discuss the orbital content of a rather unusual rotating barred galaxy model, in which the three-dimensional (3D) family, bifurcating from x1 at the 2:1 vertical resonance with the known "frown-smile" side-on morphology, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Panos Patsis , Mirella Harsoula

Molecular gas disks are generally Toomre stable ($Q_T>$1) and yet clearly gravitationally unstable to structure formation as evidenced by the existence of molecular clouds and ongoing star formation. This paper adopts a 3D perspective to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Sharon E. Meidt

The local gravitational instability of rotating discs is believed to be an important mechanism in different astrophysical processes, including the formation of gas and stellar clumps in galaxies. We aim to study in three dimensions the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-24 Carlo Nipoti , Cristina Caprioglio , Cecilia Bacchini

We consider a two-parametric family of radially anisotropic models with non-singular density distribution in the centre. If highly eccentric orbits are locked near the centre, the characteristic growth rate of the instability is much less…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 E. V. Polyachenko , I. G. Shukhman

We carry out a general study of the stability of astrophysical flows that appear steady in a uniformly rotating frame. Such a flow might correspond to a stellar pulsation mode or an accretion disk with a free global distortion giving it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. B. Papaloizou

In the following we consider a 2-dimensional system of ODE's containing quasiperiodic terms. The system is proposed as an extension of Mathieu-type equations to higher dimensions, with emphasis on how resonance between the internal…

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We study the conditions that favour boxiness of isodensities in the face-on views of orbital 3D models for barred galaxies. Using orbital weighted profiles we show that boxiness is in general a composite effect that appears when one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. A. Patsis , Ch Skokos , E. Athanassoula

This work is devoted to study the dynamics of the supercritical gKDV equations near solitary waves in the energy space $H^1$. We construct smooth local center-stable, center-unstable and center manifolds near the manifold of solitary waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Jiayin Jin , Zhiwu Lin , Chongchun Zeng

We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennadiy Burlak , Zhaopin Chen , Boris A. Malomed

It is widely believed that resonant orbits play an important role in formation and evolution of bars and large-scale spirals in galaxy discs. These resonant orbits have been studied in a number of specific potentials, often with an imposed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-16 Curtis Struck

Recent results by Martin et al. (2014) showed in 3D SPH simulations that tilted discs in binary systems can be unstable to the development of global, damped Kozai-Lidov (KL) oscillations in which the discs exchange tilt for eccentricity. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Stephen H. Lubow , Gordon I. Ogilvie

A 3D-dynamical model is constructed for the study of motion in the central regions of a disk galaxy with a double nucleus. Using the results of the 2D-model, we find the regions of initial conditions in the (x,px,z,py)=EJ, (y=pz=0) phase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-03 Nicolaos D. Caranicolas , Euaggelos E. Zotos

We obtain and investigate theoretically a broad family of stable and unstable time-periodic orbits-oscillating Turing rolls (OTR)-in the Lugiato-Lefever model of optical cavities. Using the dynamical systems tools developed in fluid…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Andrey Gelash , Savyaraj Deshmukh , Andrey Shusharin , Tobias M. Schneider , Tobias J. Kippenberg