Sections of Hamiltonian systems

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Abstract: A section of a Hamiltonian system is a hypersurface in the phase space of the system, usually representing a set of one-sided constraints (e.g. a boundary, an obstacle or a set of admissible states). In this paper we give local classification results for all typical singularities of sections of regular (non-singular) Hamiltonian systems, a problem equivalent to the classification of typical singularities of Hamiltonian systems with one-sided constraints. In particular we give a complete list of exact normal forms with functional invariants, and we show how these are related/obtained by the symplectic classification of mappings with prescribed (Whitney-type) singularities, naturally defined on the reduced phase space of the Hamiltonian system.


The author provides a local classification, modulo Hamiltonian-preserving symplectomorphisms, of all typical singularities of sections of regular Hamiltonian systems. The main theorems of the paper are in Section 2, where the author presents the hierarchy of all typical singularities and the complete list of the corresponding normal forms with their functional invariants. As a consequence of these theorems on normal forms, the author provides the structure of the associated moduli space of generic singular sections.



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