Homoclinic orbits with many loops near a \(0^2 i\omega\) resonant fixed point of Hamiltonian systems (Q255913)

In this long paper the authors study the dynamics near the equilibrium point of a family of Hamiltonian systems in the neighborhood of a \(0^2i\omega\) resonance. The existence of a family of periodic orbits surrounding the equilibrium is well-known and they show here the existence of homoclinic connections with several loops for every periodic orbit close to the origin, except the origin itself. The same problem was studied before for reversible non Hamiltonian vector fields, and the splitting of the homoclinic orbits lead to exponentially small terms which prevent the existence of homoclinic connections with one loop to exponentially small periodic orbits. The same phenomenon occurs here but they overcome this difficulty thanks to geometric arguments specific of Hamiltonian systems and by studying homoclinic orbits with many loops.