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Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory dle third from a closed interval) designates topological spaces that locally have the structure Rn Cantor dust (and Transition to Chaos) for some n 2 N. Cantor families are parametrized by HENK W. BROER1,HEINZ HANSSMANN2 such Cantor sets. On the real line R one can define 1 Instituut voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Cantor dust of positive measure by excluding around Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, each rational number p/q an interval of size The Netherlands 2 2 Mathematisch Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, ; >0 ; >2 : q Utrecht, The Netherlands Similar Diophantine conditions define Cantor sets Article Outline in Rn. Since these Cantor sets have positive measure their Hausdorff dimension is n.Wheretheunper- Glossary turbed system is stratified according to the co-dimen- Definition of the Subject sion of occurring (bifurcating) tori, this leads to a Can- Introduction tor stratification. One Degree of Freedom Chaos An evolution of a dynamical system is chaotic if its Perturbations of Periodic Orbits future is badly predictable from its past. Examples of Invariant Curves of Planar Diffeomorphisms non-chaotic evolutions are periodic or multi-periodic. KAM Theory: An Overview A system is called chaotic when many of its evolutions Splitting of Separatrices are. One criterion for chaoticity is the fact that one of Transition to Chaos and Turbulence the Lyapunov exponents is positive. Future Directions Diophantine condition, Diophantine frequency vector Bibliography A frequency vector ! 2 Rn is called Diophantine if there are constants >0and >n 1with Glossary jhk;!ij for all k 2 Znnf0g : Bifurcation In parametrized dynamical systems a bifur- jkj cation occurs when a qualitative change is invoked by a change of parameters. In models such a qualitative The Diophantine frequency vectors satisfying this con- change corresponds to transition between dynamical dition for fixed and form a Cantor set of half lines. regimes. In the generic theory a finite list of cases is ob- As the Diophantine parameter tends to zero (while tained, containing elements like ‘saddle-node’, ‘period remains fixed), these half lines extend to the origin. doubling’, ‘Hopf bifurcation’ and many others. The complement in any compact set of frequency vec- Cantor set, Cantor dust, Cantor family, Cantor strati- tors satisfying a Diophantine condition with fixed fication Cantor dust is a separable locally compact space has a measure of order O( )as # 0. that is perfect, i. e. every point is in the closure of its Integrable system A Hamiltonian system with n degrees complement, and totally disconnected. This deter- of freedom is (Liouville)-integrable if it has n func- mines Cantor dust up to homeomorphisms. The term tionally independent commuting integrals of motion. Cantor set (originally reserved for the specific form of Locally this implies the existence of a torus action, Cantor dust obtained by repeatedly deleting the mid- a feature that can be generalized to dissipative sys- 4516 H Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory (and Transition to Chaos)
tems. In particular a mapping is integrable if it can be planes in !-space and, by means of the frequency interpolated to become the stroboscopic mapping of mapping, also in phase space. The smallest number aflow. jhjDjh1jC Cjhk j is the order of the resonance. KAM theory Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theory is the Diophantine conditions describe a measure-theoret- perturbation theory of (Diophantine) quasi-periodic ically large complement of a neighborhood of the tori for nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems. In the (dense!) set of all resonances. format of quasi-periodic stability, the unperturbed and Separatrices Consider a hyperbolic equilibrium, fixed or perturbed system, restricted to a Diophantine Cantor periodic point or invariant torus. If the stable and un- set, are smoothly conjugated in the sense of Whitney. stable manifolds of such hyperbolic elements are codi- This theory extends to the world of reversible, volume- mension one immersed manifolds, then they are called preserving or general dissipative systems. In the latter separatrices, since they separate domains of phase KAM theory gives rise to families of quasi-periodic at- space, for instance, basins of attraction. tractors. KAM theory also applies to torus bundles, in Singularity theory AfunctionH : Rn ! R has a crit- which case a global Whitney smooth conjugation can ical point z 2 Rn where DH(z)vanishes.Inlo- be proven to exist, that keeps track of the geometry. In cal coordinates we may arrange z D 0 (and simi- an appropriate sense invariants like monodromy and larly that it is mapped to zero as well). Two germs Chern classes thus also can be defined in the nearly K :(Rn; 0) ! (R; 0) and N :(Rn ; 0) ! (R; 0) rep- integrable case. Also compare with Kolmogorov– resent the same function H locally around z if and only Arnold–Moser (KAM) Theory. if there is a diffeomorphism on Rn satisfying Nearly integrable system In the setting of perturbation theory, a nearly integrable system is a perturbation of N D K ı : an integrable one. The latter then is an integrable ap- proximation of the former. See an above item. The corresponding equivalence class is called a singu- Normal form truncation Consider a dynamical system larity. in the neighborhood of an equilibrium point, a fixed or Structurally stable A system is structurally stable if it is periodic point, or a quasi-periodic torus, reducible to topologically equivalent to all nearby systems, where Floquet form. Then Taylor expansions (and their ana- ‘nearby’ is measured in an appropriate topology on the logues) can be changed gradually into normal forms, space of systems, like the Whitney Ck-topology [72]. that usually reflect the dynamics better. Often these A family is structurally stable if for every nearby family display a (formal) torus symmetry, such that the nor- there is a re-parametrization such that all correspond- mal form truncation becomes an integrable approxi- ing systems are topologically equivalent. mation, thus yielding a perturbation theory setting. See above items. Also compare with Normal Forms in Definition of the Subject Perturbation Theory. Persistent property In the setting of perturbation theory, The fundamental problem of mechanics is to study Hamil- a property is persistent whenever it is inherited from tonian systems that are small perturbations of integrable the unperturbed to the perturbed system. Often the systems. Also, perturbations that destroy the Hamiltonian perturbation is taken in an appropriate topology on the character are important, be it to study the effect of a small space of systems, like the Whitney Ck-topology [72]. amount of friction, or to further the theory of dissipa- Perturbation problem In perturbation theory the unper- tive systems themselves which surprisingly often revolves turbed systems usually are transparent regarding their around certain well-chosen Hamiltonian systems. Fur- dynamics. Examples are integrable systems or normal thermore there are approaches like KAM theory that his- form truncations. In a perturbation problem things are torically were first applied to Hamiltonian systems. Typi- arranged in such a way that the original system is well- cally perturbation theory explains only part of the dynam- approximated by such an unperturbed one. This ar- ics, and in the resulting gaps the orderly unperturbed mo- rangement usually involves both changes of variables tion is replaced by random or chaotic motion. and scalings. Resonance If the frequencies of an invariant torus with Introduction multi- or conditionally periodic flow are rationally dependent, this torus divides into invariant sub-tori. We outline perturbation theory from a general point of Such resonances hh;!iD0, h 2 Zk ,definehyper- view, illustrated by a few examples. Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory (and Transition to Chaos) H 4517
The Perturbation Problem a vector field, we obtain The aim of perturbation theory is to approximate a given t˙ D 1 dynamical system by a more familiar one, regarding the former as a perturbation of the latter. The problem then x˙ D y is to deduce certain dynamical properties from the unper- dV y˙ D (x) C " f (x; y; t) ; turbed to the perturbed case. dx What is familiar may or may not be a matter of taste, at R3 Df; ; g least it depends a lot on the dynamical properties of one’s now on the generalized phase space t x y .In interest. Still the most frequently used unperturbed sys- the case where the t-dependence is periodic, we can take S1 R2 tems are: for (generalized) phase space. Linear systems Remark Integrable Hamiltonian systems, compare with Dy- A small variation of the above driven system concerns namics of Hamiltonian Systems and references therein a parametrically forced oscillator like Normal form truncations, compare with Normal Forms in Perturbation Theory and references therein x¨ C (!2 C " cos t)sinx D 0 ; Etc. which happens to be entirely in the world of Hamilto- To some extent the second category can be seen as a special nian systems. case of the third. To avoid technicalities in this section we It may be useful to study the Poincaré or period map- assume all systems to be sufficiently smooth, say of class ping of such time periodic systems, which happens to C1 or real analytic. Moreover in our considerations " will be a mapping of the plane. We recall that in the Hamil- be a real parameter. The unperturbed case always corre- tonian cases this mapping preserves area. For general sponds to " D 0 and the perturbed one to " ¤ 0or">0. reference in this direction see, e. g., [6,7,27,66]. Examples of Perturbation Problems To begin with There are lots of variations and generalizations. One ex- consider the autonomous differential equation ampleisthesolarsystem,wheretheunperturbedcasecon- dV sists of a number of uncoupled two-body problems con- x¨ C "x˙ C (x) D 0 ; dx cerning the Sun and each of the planets, and where the in- teraction between the planets is considered as small [6,9, modeling an oscillator with small damping. Rewriting this 107,108]. equation of motion as a planar vector field Remark x˙ D y dV One variation is a restriction to fewer bodies, for y˙ D "y (x) ; example only three. Examples of this are systems dx like Sun–Jupiter–Saturn, Earth–Moon–Sun or Earth– 1 2 we consider the energy H(x; y) D 2 y C V(x). For " D 0 Moon–Satellite. the system is Hamiltonian with Hamiltonian function H. Often Sun, Moon and planets are considered as point Indeed, generally we have H˙ (x; y) D "y2,implyingthat masses, in which case the dynamics usually are mod- for ">0 there is dissipation of energy. Evidently for " ¤ 0 eled as a Hamiltonian system. It is also possible to ex- the system is no longer Hamiltonian. tend this approach taking tidal effects into account, The reader is invited to compare the phase portraits of which have a non-conservative nature. the cases " D 0and">0forV(x) D cos x (the pendu- The Solar System is close to resonance, which makes 1 2 1 4 lum) or V(x) D 2 x C 24 bx (Duffing). application of KAM theory problematic. There exist, Another type of example is provided by the non-au- however, other integrable approximations that take tonomous equation resonance into account [3,63]. dV x¨ C (x) D " f (x; x˙; t) ; Quite another perturbation setting is local, e. g., near an dx equilibrium point. To fix thoughts consider which can be regarded as the equation of motion of an oscillator with small external forcing. Again rewriting as x˙ D Ax C f (x) ; x 2 Rn 4518 H Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory (and Transition to Chaos)
with A 2 gl(n; R), f (0) D 0andDx f (0) D 0. By the scal- point x0 2 ˙ \ 0. By transversality, for j"j small, a local ing x D "x¯ we rewrite the system to Poincaré map P" : ˙ ! ˙ is well-defined for (1). Observe that fixed points x" of P" correspond to periodic orbits " x¯˙ D Ax¯ C "g(x¯) : of (1). We now have, again as another direct consequence of the implicit function theorem. So, here we take the linear part as an unperturbed sys- tem. Observe that for small " the perturbation is small on Theorem 2 (Persistence of periodic orbits) In the above a compact neighborhood of x¯ D 0. assume that This setting also has many variations. In fact, any normal form approximation may be treated in this P0(x0) D x0 and Dx P0(x0) has no eigenvalue 1 : way Normal Forms in Perturbation Theory. Then the Then there exists a local arc " 7! x(") with x(0) D x such normalized truncation forms the unperturbed part and the 0 that higher order terms the perturbation.
Remark In the above we took the classical viewpoint P"(x(")) x" : which involves a perturbation parameter controlling the size of the perturbation. Often one can generalize this by Remark considering a suitable topology (like the Whitney topolo- gies) on the corresponding class of systems [72]. Also Often the conditions of Theorem 2 are not easy to ver- compare with Normal Forms in Perturbation Theory, ify.SometimesitisusefulheretouseFloquetTheory, Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) Theory and Dy- see [97]. In fact, if T0 is the period of 0 and ˝0 its namics of Hamiltonian Systems. Floquet matrix, then Dx P0(x0) D exp(T0˝0). The format of the Theorems 1 and 2 with the pertur- Questions of Persistence bation parameter " directly allows for algorithmic ap- proaches. One way to proceed is by perturbation series, What are the kind of questions perturbation theory asks? leading to asymptotic formulae that in the real analytic A large class of questions concerns the persistence of cer- setting have positive radius of convergence. In the latter tain dynamical properties as known for the unperturbed case the names of Poincaré and Lindstedt are associated case. To fix thoughts we give a few examples. with the method, cf. [10]. To begin with consider equilibria and periodic orbits. Also numerical continuation programmes exist based So we put on the Newton method. The Theorems 1 and 2 can be seen as special cases of x˙ D f (x;") ; x 2 Rn ;"2 R ; (1) aageneraltheoremfornormally hyperbolic invariant for a map f : RnC1 ! Rn. Recall that equilibria are given manifolds [73], Theorem 4.1. In all cases a contraction by the equation f (x;") D 0. The following theorem that principle on a suitable Banach space of graphs leads to continues equilibria in the unperturbed system for " ¤ 0, persistence of the invariant dynamical object. is a direct consequence of the implicit function theorem. This method in particular yields existence and persis- Theorem 1 (Persistence of equilibria) Suppose that tence of stable and unstable manifolds [53,54]. f (x0; 0) D 0 and that Another type of dynamics subject to perturbation theory Dx f (x0; 0) has maximal rank : is quasi-periodic. We emphasize that persistence of (Dio- phantine) quasi-periodic invariant tori occurs both in the Then there exists a local arc " 7! x(") with x(0) D x0 such conservative setting and in many others, like in the re- that versible and the general (dissipative) setting. In the latter case this leads to persistent occurrence of families of quasi- " ;" : f (x( ) ) 0 periodic attractors [125]. These results are in the domain of Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM)theory.Fordetails Periodic orbits can be approximated in a similar way. In- we refer to Sect. “KAM Theory: An Overview” below or deed, let the system (1)for D 0 have a periodic orbit 0. to [24], Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser (KAM) Theory, Let ˙ be a local transversal section of 0 and P0 : ˙ ! ˙ the former reference containing more than 400 references the corresponding Poincaré map. Then P0 has a fixed in this area. Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory (and Transition to Chaos) H 4519
Remark plies perpetual adiabatic stability of the action variables. In contrast, for n 3 the Lagrangian tori have codimen- Concerning the Solar System, KAM theory always has sion n 1 > 1 in the energy hypersurfaces and evolution aimed at proving that it contains many quasi-periodic curves may escape. motions, in the sense of positive Liouville measure. This actually occurs in the case of so-called Arnold This would imply that there is positive probability that diffusion. The literature on this subject is immense, and a given initial condition lies on such a stable quasi-pe- we here just quote [5,9,93,109], for many more references riodic motion [3,63], however, also see [85]. see [24]. Another type of result in this direction compares the Next we consider the motion in a neighborhood of distance of certain individual solutions of the perturbed the KAM tori, in the case where the systems are real ana- and the unperturbed system, with coinciding initial lytic or at least Gevrey smooth. For a definition of Gevrey conditions over time scales that are long in terms of ". regularity see [136]. First we mention that, measured in Compare with [24]. terms of the distance to the KAM torus, nearby evolution curves generically stay nearby over a superexponentially Apart from persistence properties related to invariant long time [102,103]. This property often is referred to as manifolds or individual solutions, the aim can also be superexponential stickiness of the KAM tori, see [24]for to obtain a more global persistence result. As an exam- more references. pleofthiswementiontheHartman–GrobmanTheorem, Second, nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems, in e. g., [7,116,123]. Here the setting once more is terms of the perturbation size, generically exhibit expo- nentially long adiabatic stability of the action variables, see x˙ D Ax C f (x) ; x 2 Rn ; e. g. [15,88,89,90,93,103,109,110,113,120], Nekhoroshev Theory and many others, for more references see [24]. with A 2 gl(n; R), f (0) D 0andDx f (0) D 0. Now we as- This property is referred to as the Nekhoroshev estimate sume A to be hyperbolic (i. e., with no purely imaginary or the Nekhoroshev theorem. For related work on pertur- eigenvalues). In that case the full system, near the origin, bations of so-called superintegrable systems, also see [24] is topologically conjugated to the linear system x˙ D Ax. and references therein. Therefore all global, qualitative properties of the unper- turbed (linear) system are persistent under perturbation to the full system. For details on these notions see the above Chaos references, also compare with, e. g., [30]. In the previous subsection we discussed persistent and It is said that the hyperbolic linear system x˙ D Ax is some non-persistent features of dynamical systems un- (locally) structurally stable. This kind of thinking was in- der small perturbations. Here we discuss properties re- troduced to the dynamical systems area by Thom [133], lated to splitting of separatrices, caused by generic pertur- with a first, successful application to catastrophe theory. bations. For further details, see [7,30,69,116]. A first example was met earlier, when comparing the pendulum with and without (small) damping. The unper- General Dynamics turbed system is the undamped one and this is a Hamil- We give a few remarks on the general dynamics in a neigh- tonian system. The perturbation however no longer is borhood of Hamiltonian KAM tori. In particular this con- Hamiltonian. We see that the equilibria are persistent, as cerns so-called superexponential stickiness of the KAM tori they should be according to Theorem 1, but that none of and adiabatic stability of the action variables, involving the the periodic orbits survives the perturbation. Such quali- so-called Nekhoroshev estimate. tative changes go with perturbing away from the Hamilto- To begin with, emphasize the following difference be- nian setting. tween the cases n D 2andn 3 in the classical KAM the- Similar examples concern the breaking of a certain orem of Subsect. “Classical KAM Theory”. For n D 2the symmetry by the perturbation. The latter often occurs in level surfaces of the Hamiltonian are three-dimensional, the case of normal form approximations. Then the nor- while the Lagrangian tori have dimension two and hence malized truncation is viewed as the unperturbed system, codimension one in the energy hypersurfaces. This means which is perturbed by the higher order terms. The trunca- that for open sets of initial conditions, the evolution curves tion often displays a reasonable amount of symmetry (e. g., are forever trapped in between KAM tori, as these tori foli- toroidal symmetry), which generically is forbidden for the ate over nowhere dense sets of positive measure. This im- class of systems under consideration, e. g. see [25]. 4520 H Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory (and Transition to Chaos)
Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory (and Transition to Chaos), Figure 1 ! 1 "> Chaos in the parametrically forced pendulum. Left: Poincaré map P!;" near the 1 : 2 resonance D 2 and for 0 not too small. Right: A dissipative analogue
To fix thoughts we reconsider the conservative ex- more sophisticated tools see [65]. Often this leads to el- ample liptic (Abelian) integrals. In nearly integrable systems chaos can occur. This 2 x¨ C (! C " cos t)sinx D 0 fact is at the heart of the celebrated non-integrability of the three-body problem as addressed by Poincaré [12,59, of the previous section. The corresponding (time depen- 107,108,118]. A long standing open conjecture is that the dent, Hamiltonian [6]) vector field reads clouds of points as visible in Fig. 1, left, densely fill sets of positive area, thereby leading to ergodicity [9]. t˙ D 1 In the case of dissipation, see Fig. 1,right,wecon- x˙ D y jecture the occurrence of a Hénon-like strange attrac- y˙ D (!2 C " cos t)sinx : tor [14,22,126].
2 2 Remark Let P!;" : R ! R be the corresponding (area-preserv- ing) Poincaré map. Let us consider the unperturbed map The persistent occurrence of periodic points of a given P!;0 which is just the flow over time 2 of the free rotation number follows from the Poincaré–Birkhoff pendulum x¨ C !2 sin x D 0. Such a map is called inte- fixed point theorem [74,96,107], i. e., on topological grable, since it is the stroboscopic map of a two-dimen- grounds. sional vector field, hence displaying the R-symmetry of The above arguments are not restricted to the conser- a flow. When perturbed to the nearly integrable case " ¤ 0, vative setting, although quite a number of unperturbed this symmetry generically is broken. We list a few of the systems come from this world. Again see Fig. 1. generic properties for such maps [123]: