A note on micro-instability for Hamiltonian systems close to integrable

2014/12/23 by Bounemoura, Abed, Kaloshin, Vadim
#Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.7455

Abstract

In this note, we consider the dynamics associated to an epsilon-perturbation of an integrable Hamiltonian system in action-angle coordinates in any number of degrees of freedom and we prove the following result of "micro-diffusion": under generic assumptions on h and f , there exists an orbit of the system for which the drift of its action variables is at least of order square root of epsilon, after a time of order the inverse of square root of epsilon. The assumptions, which are essentially minimal, are that there exists a resonant point for h and that the corresponding averaged perturbation is non-constant. The conclusions, although very weak when compared to usual instability phenomena, are also essentially optimal within this setting.

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