Invariant tori of intermediate dimensions in Hamiltonian systems (Q1286767)

The paper is a brief overview without any proofs but with explanations of how a typical analytic Hamiltonian system with \(n+m\) degrees of freedom behaves near a given analytic isotropic invariant \(n\)-dimensional torus. Typically such a torus is included into the Whitney-smooth family of such tori, all of them are quasi-periodic and reducible. The main problem under discussion is the so-called ``excitation of elliptic normal modes'', i.e., tori of dimension \(n+r\), \(0\leq r\leq m,\) in a neighborhood of the given torus under the assumption that the transverse linearized (reducible) system at this torus has \(m\) pairs of pure imaginary eigenvalues, and common diophantine conditions hold. This is a broad extension of the well-known Lyapunov center theorem about the existence of \(N\) local symplectic two-dimensional invariant manifolds filled with periodic orbits near an elliptic equilibrium for an \(N\)-degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian system.