On John Mather's seminal contributions in Hamiltonian dynamics

DOI10.4310/MAA.2019.V26.N1.A3MaRDI QIDQ2278147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alfonso Sorrentino

Publication date 9 December 2019

Published in Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/maa.2019.v26.n1.a3

zbMATH Keywords

action-minimizing methodsAubry setsAubry-Mather theoryMather measuresMather setsMañé setsminimal average action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-02) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37J46) Action-minimizing orbits and measures for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems; variational principles; degree-theoretic methods (37J51)

Review text

This manuscript presents an overview of what is nowadays called Mather's theory: a set of ideas and results for Lagrangian systems, that John Mather started to develop in the early 1990s in order to tackle the problem of Arnold diffusion and to understand the onset of chaos in classical mechanics. There are seven sections called as follows: In the beginning there were KAM tori ...; Setting: Tonelli Lagrangians and Hamiltonians; Cartoon example: Action minimizing properties of integrable systems; Action-minimizing measures and Mather sets; Mather's \(\alpha\) and \(\beta \)-functions; Action-minimizing curves and more invariant sets; Some topological and symplectic properties of the Aubry and Mañé sets.

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