Effective Hamiltonian dynamics via the Maupertuis principle

DOI10.3934/DCDSS.2020078zbMATH Open1434.70041arXiv1712.00106OpenAlexW2963709331WikidataQ128007005 ScholiaQ128007005MaRDI QIDQ2180374FDOQ2180374

Authors: Hartmut Schwetlick, Daniel C. Sutton, Johannes Zimmer 

Publication date: 13 May 2020

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the dynamics of a Hamiltonian particle forced by a rapidly oscillating potential in $dim$-dimensional space. As alternative to the established approach of averaging Hamiltonian dynamics by reformulating the system as Hamilton-Jacobi equation, we propose an averaging technique via reformulation using the Maupertuis principle. We analyse the result of these two approaches for one space dimension. For the initial value problem the solutions converge uniformly when the total energy is fixed. If the initial velocity is fixed independently of the microscopic scale, then the limit solution depends on the choice of subsequence. We show similar results hold for the one-dimensional boundary value problem. In the higher dimensional case we show a novel connection between the Hamilton-Jacobi and Maupertuis approaches, namely that the sets of minimisers and saddle points coincide for these functionals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00106

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zbMATH Keywords

homogenisationHamiltonian dynamicseffective dynamicsperiodic potentialMaupertuis principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Hamilton's principle (70H25) Periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37J46)

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