Dynamics of periodic Toda chains with a large number of particles

Abstract: For periodic Toda chains with a large number

N

of particles we consider states which are

N^{- 2} -

close to the equilibrium and constructed by discretizing any given

C^{2} -

functions with mesh size

N^{- 1}

. For such states we derive asymptotic expansions of the Toda frequencies

(o m e g a_{n}^{N})_{0 < n < N}

and the actions

(I_{n}^{N})_{0 < n < N},

both listed in the standard way, in powers of

N^{- 1}

as

N o i n f t y

. %listed in accordance with the ordering of the frequencies at the equilibrium, %

(2 s i n f r a c n p i N)_{0 < n < N}

. At the two edges

n s i m 1

and

N - n s i m 1

, the expansions of the frequencies are computed up to order

N^{- 3}

with an error term of higher order. Specifically, the coefficients of the expansions of

o m e g a_{n}^{N}

and

o m e g a_{N - n}^{N}

at order

N^{- 3}

are given by a constant multiple of the n'th KdV frequencies

o m e g a_{n}^{-}

and

o m e g a_{n}^{+}

of two periodic potentials,

q_{-}

respectively

q_{+}

, constructed in terms of the states considered. The frequencies

o m e g a_{n}^{N}

for

n

away from the edges are shown to be asymptotically close to the frequencies of the equilibrium. For the actions

(I_{n}^{N})_{0 < n < N},

asymptotics of a similar nature are derived.

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