Melnikov's vector - a ``Measure of chaos

DOI10.1016/0034-4877(91)90026-JMaRDI QIDQ1201387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfgang Haidegger

Publication date 17 January 1993

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-4877(91)90026-j

zbMATH Keywords

heteroclinic cyclehomoclinic trajectorySmale horseshoe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40)

Review text

An asymptotic perturbation theory, based on the Melnikov's function is developed for nonlinear dynamical systems with the left-hand sides in the form of integrable zeroth-order terms plus a small perturbation (which may be both Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian). It is assumed that the integrable (zeroth-order) dynamical system has an exact homoclinic trajectory, or a closed cycle composed of several heteroclinic trajectories. The perturbation theory developed makes it possible to detect the presence of the Smale horseshoe in the phase space of the perturbed system, i.e., to predict appearance of the dynamical chaos in a vicinity of the homoclinic trajectory, generated by the small perturbation.

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