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In the study of Hamiltonian systems on cotangent bundles, it is natural to perturb Hamiltoni-ans by adding potentials (functions depending only on the base point). This led to the definition of Ma{\~n}{\'e} genericity: a property is generic…
We prove a perturbation theorem for the $k$-jets, $k\geq 2$, of the Poincar\'e map of a closed orbit of the Hamiltonian flow of a Tonelli Hamiltonian $H: T^*M\to \R$, on a closed manifold $M$. As a consequence we obtain Ma\~n\'e generic…
We consider generic properties of Lagrangians. Our main result is the Theorem of Kupka-Smale, in the Lagrangian setting, claiming that, for a convex and superlinear Lagrangian defined in a compact surface, for each $k\in \mathbb{R}$,…
I review the microscopic spin-orbital Hamiltonian and ground state properties of spin one-half spinel oxides with threefold $t_{2g}$ orbital degeneracy. It is shown that for any orbital configuration a ground state of corresponding spin…
We prove that a Ma\~n\'e generic real-analytic $D$-Hamiltonian H, subjected to a totally non-holonomic real-analytic distribution $D$, has no non-trivial normal $D$-singular orbits of minimal rank. If $D$ has co-rank 1, this implies that $H…
We study periodic orbits on a nondegenerate dynamically convex starshaped hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ along the lines of Long and Zhu, but using properties of the $S^1$-equivariant symplectic homology. We prove that there exist at…
Let $M$ be a closed manifold and $L$ an exact magnetic Lagrangian. In this paper we proved that there exists a residual $\mathcal{G}$ of $H^{1}\left( M;\mathbb{R}\right)$ such that the property: \begin{equation*}…
In this work we study homeomorphisms of closed orientable surfaces homotopic to the identity, focusing on the existence of non-contractible periodic orbits. We show that, if $g$ is such a homeomorphism, and if $\hat g$ is its lift to the…
In this paper we show that, under certain generic conditions, billiards on ovals have only a finite number of periodic orbits, for each period, all non-degenerate and at least one of them is hyperbolic. Moreover, the invariant curves of two…
We prove that there exist periodic orbits on almost all compact regular energy levels of a Hamiltonian function defined on a twisted cotangent bundle over the two-sphere. As a corollary, given any Riemannian two-sphere and a magnetic field…
Hamiltonian dynamical systems tend to have infinitely many periodic orbits. For example, for a broad class of symplectic manifolds almost all levels of a proper smooth Hamiltonian carry periodic orbits. The Hamiltonian Seifert conjecture is…
We construct examples of Tonelli Hamiltonians on $\T^n$ (for any $n\geq 2$) such that the hypersurfaces corresponding to the Ma\~n\'e critical value are stable (i.e. geodesible). We also provide a criterion for instability in terms of…
We show that the existence of one simple closed Reeb orbit of a particular type (a symplectically degenerate maximum) forces the Reeb flow to have infinitely many periodic orbits. We use this result to give a different proof of a recent…
Motivated by the ergodic closing lemma of Ma\~n\'e, we investigate the $C^\infty$ closing lemma in higher-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, with a focus on the statistical behavior of periodic orbits generated by $C^\infty$-small…
Let $M^n$ be a connected closed smooth manifold, where $n\geq 2$. In this article, we adapt the techniques in Micheletti and Pistoia (2009) and Ghimenti and Micheletti (2011) to prove the generic nondegeneracy for solutions of the Van der…
We investigate global continuation of periodic orbits of a differential equation depending on a parameter, assuming that a closed 1-form satisfying certain properties exists. We begin by extending the global continuation theory of…
This paper concerns the existence of multiple rotating periodic solutions for $2n$ dimensional convex Hamiltonian systems. For the symplectic orthogonal matrix $Q$, the rotating periodic solution has the form of $z(t+T)=Qz(t)$, which might…
The present paper is a review of counterexamples to the ``Hamiltonian Seifert conjecture'' or, more generally, of examples of Hamiltonian systems having no periodic orbits on a compact energy level. We begin with the discussion of the…
We study orbits and reachable sets of generic couples of Hamiltonians $H_1, H_2$ on a symplectic manifold $N$. We prove that, $C^k$-generically for $k$ large enough, orbits coincide with the whole of $N$, and that the same is true for…
We prove that for a weakly exact magnetic system on a closed connected Riemannian manifold, almost all energy levels contain a closed orbit. More precisely, we prove the following stronger statements. Let $(M,g)$ denote a closed connected…