The Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcation (Q1070608)

This monograph deals mainly with the study of a family of Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom near an equilibrium as the family passes through resonance. The author concentrates on families that present Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcation, that is the passage through nonsemisimple 1:-1 resonance. His approach is very well structured and the book is self-contained, although occasionally some terminology is presupposed. The monograph is organized as follows. In Chapter 1 some basic facts on symplectic geometry and Lie theory are given. Most theorems in this chapter are stated without proof. The theory of Hamiltonian normal forms is discussed in Chapter 2. To get such normal forms, actions of symplectic diffeomorphisms on Hamiltonian systems are used. Several examples as well as existence theorems for Hamiltonian normal forms and for integrals for energy-momentum are also given. In Chapter 3 the equivariant theory of stability of mappings is applied to energy-momentum mappings invariant with respect to a symplectic \(S^ 1\)-action. Results due to Poénaru and Bierstone on singularities of equivariant mappings play a fundamental role in this regard. Chapter 4 deals with the geometry of standard integrable systems for the Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcation. In Chapter 5 the Moser-Weinstein reduction is applied to the Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcation. Some open problems concerning nonintegrable phenomena of invariant tori and homoclinic orbits are discussed. In Chapter 6 it is shown how the theory developed above applies to the restriced 3-body problem. A review of papers on the nonsemisimple 1:-1 resonance and a description of their relationships to the results presented in the previous chapters are also given. Chapters 2 and 6 close with sections containing historical notes and illustrative discussions may be found at the end of Chapters 3 and 5. A bibliography containing 104 items is appended.