Homoclinic Orbits and Lagrangian Embeddings

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNM151MaRDI QIDQ3516020zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel T. Lisi

Publication date 30 July 2008

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608801

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35)

Abstract: This paper introduces techniques of symplectic topology to the study of homoclinic orbits in Hamiltonian systems. The main result is a strong generalization of homoclinic existence results due to Sere and to Coti-Zelati, Ekeland and Sere, which were obtained by variational methods. Our existence result uses a modification of a construction due to Mohnke (originally in the context of Legendrian chords), and an energy--capacity inequality of Chekanov. In essence, we show the existence of a homoclinic orbit by showing a certain Lagrangian embedding cannot exist. We consider a (possibly time dependent) Hamiltonian system on an exact symplectic manifold (W, omega = d lambda) with a hyperbolic rest point. In the case of periodic time dependence, we show the existence of an orbit homoclinic to the rest point if lambda(X_H) - H is positive and proper, H is positive outside a compact set and proper, and (W, omega) admits the structure of a Weinstein domain. In the autonomous case, we establish the existence of an orbit homoclinic to the rest point if the critical level is of restricted contact-type, and the critical level has a Hamiltonian displaceable neighbourhood.

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