Unbounded growth of energy in nonautonomous Hamiltonian systems (Q4265698)

Let \(M\) be a compact manifold with Riemannian metric \(\|\dot q\|^2= \langle A(q)\dot q,\dot q\rangle\), \(\dot q\in T_q(M)\) and consider a classical Hamiltonian system with smooth time-periodic Hamiltonian \[ H(q,p,t)= \tfrac{1}{2} \|p\|^2+ V(q,t) \tag{1} \] on \(T^* M\times T\), where \(T=\mathbb{R}/2\pi\mathbb{Z}\) and \(\|p\|^2= \langle p,A^{-1}(q)p\rangle\). Under some general conditions on \(H\) using variational approach Mather proved that there exists a trajectory such that \(\|p(t)\|\to \infty\) as \(t\to\infty\). The paper deals with a multidimensional version of Mather's result. The authors study Hamiltonians more general than (1) and replace periodic orbit by a hyperbolic invariant torus. Assuming \(H(q,p,t)\) is real analytic the authors use a more traditional approach which relies on some results from KAM theory and classical Poincaré-Melnikov method.