On a Galoisian approach to the splitting of separatrices (Q1576401)

There is a very interesting connection between two different approaches to the nonintegrability of two degree of freedom analytic Hamiltonian systems with a homoclinic orbit to a saddle-center equilibrium point. From one side, it is the algebraic Galois differential approach. Galois differential approach by using a sophisticated version of Ziglin's nonintegrability theorem on the complex analytical variational equations associated to a particular integral curve. From the other side, a theorem of Lerman on the existence of transversal homoclinic orbits in the real part of the phase space. The authors use an interpretation of Lerman's theorem given by Grotta-Ragazzo.