Chaotic trajectories in the standard map. The concept of anti- integrability (Q749945)

The authors emphasize the role of the anti-integrable limit where the dynamical system reduces to a Bernoulli shift with trivial chaotic trajectories. They observe that the chaotic trajectories of dynamical systems appear to originate by continuity from those which exist at the anti-integrable limits (under certain conditions), in the same way the KAM tori of symplectic dynamical systems originate by continuity from the invariant tori which exist in the integrable limit (under certain conditions). So, the aim of this paper is to associate the existence of chaotic trajectories with the concept of anti-integrability in a similar way the existence of KAM tori can be associated with the concept of integrability. This approach applied to the Frenkel-Kontorowa (FK) model, yields a rigorous proof for the existence of unbounded chaotic trajectories in the standard map close enough to its anti-integrable limit. The authors point out that this simple example was considered for pedagogical reasons only, while the approach can be generalized to a wider class of models. However, it must be mentioned that despite chaotic configurations could be found explicitly in the FK model with a piecewise parabolic potential for example [the first author, J. Phys. C 16, 2497- 2508 (1983)], a general rigorous proof for their existence was still missing. The authors remark that the reported results are of interest not only for understanding of symplectic dynamical systems, but can also be extended to some non-symplectic dynamical systems. They are also useful for understanding structural problems in one, two or more dimensions which cannot be associated with dynamical systems. The authors mention that these new ideas will be applied in a forthcoming paper to the problem of high physical interest of coupled electron-phonon systems [the authors, \textit{P. Quemerais} and \textit{J. L. Raimbault}, Bipolaronic chaotic states in the adiabatic Holstein model, in preparation]. Then, the existence of chaotic bipolaronic states will be proven.