Reducing scattering problems under cone potentials to normal form by global canonical transformations (Q2644840)

This paper deals with Hamiltonian systems \((d/dt)p=-\nabla {\mathcal V}(q),\quad (d/dt)q=p,\quad p,q\in {\mathbb{R}}^ n\) with a cone potential \({\mathcal V}\), the latter means that the force \(-\nabla {\mathcal V}(q)\) is always in a closed convex cone which contains no lines. Under the assumption that \({\mathcal V}\) is bounded below it is known that the velocity p has a finite limit \(p_{\infty}\) as \(t\to \infty\). This paper extends the investigation from the asymptotic velocities \(p_{\infty}\) to the limits, sometimes referred to as asymptotic phases: \[ a_{\infty}(\bar p,\bar q):=\lim_{t\to +\infty}(q(t,\bar p,\bar q)-tp(t,\bar p,\bar q))\in {\mathbb{R}}^ n \] (\(\bar p,\bar q\) are the initial values at \(t=0).\) Sufficient conditions are found that guarantee the existence and smoothness of these limits as functions of the initial data \((\bar p,\bar q)\). The deduction is done by introducing a class of Hamiltonian scattering systems which can be reduced to the ``normal form'' \((d/dt)P=0,\quad (d/dt)Q=P,\) by means of a global canonical transformation \((P,Q)={\mathcal A}(p,q)\), \(p,q\in {\mathbb{R}}^ n\), defined through the asymptotic properties of the trajectories.