Global Symplectic Polynomial Approximation of Area-Preserving Maps

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Poincaré maps are now of common use for studying the qualitative behaviour of differential equations. Moreover, in order to study stability problems for planetary motions many authors have sought explicit algebraic mappings which approximate, at least qualitatively, the Poincaré maps obtained from the original Newton equations. To overcome some difficulties which appear in the process of the interpolation using the Taylor series, the authors have introduced a method based on a symplectic, i.e. global area preserving, mapping. This method is described looking for the mapping \((T^*): x_{i+ 1}= P_m(x_i, y_i)\), \(y_{i+ 1}= Q_n(x_i, y_i)\), where \(P_m\) and \(Q_n\) are polynomials of order \(m\) and \(n\) which fit the initial Poincaré map \(T\) at the best, in the least-squares meaning, for the images of a regular grid. It is shown that the global symplectic map reproduces with a good agreement the characteristics of the standard map on both regular and chaotic regions.











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