Instabilities and stickiness in a 3D rotating galactic potential

DOI10.1142/S021812741330005XzbMATH Open1270.85004arXiv1201.2108OpenAlexW2052802744MaRDI QIDQ2845136FDOQ2845136

Authors: M. Katsanikas, P. A. Patsis, G. Contopoulos 

Publication date: 22 August 2013

Published in: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the dynamics in the neighborhood of simple and double unstable periodic orbits in a rotating 3D autonomous Hamiltonian system of galactic type. In order to visualize the four dimensional spaces of section we use the method of color and rotation. We investigate the structure of the invariant manifolds that we found in the neighborhood of simple and double unstable periodic orbits in the 4D spaces of section. We consider orbits in the neighborhood of the families x1v2, belonging to the x1 tree, and the z-axis (the rotational axis of our system). Close to the transition points from stability to simple instability, in the neighborhood of the bifurcated simple unstable x1v2 periodic orbits we encounter the phenomenon of stickiness as the asymptotic curves of the unstable manifold surround regions of the phase space occupied by rotational tori existing in the region. For larger energies, away from the bifurcating point, the consequents of the chaotic orbits form clouds of points with mixing of color in their 4D representations. In the case of double instability, close to x1v2 orbits, we find clouds of points in the four dimensional spaces of section. However, in some cases of double unstable periodic orbits belonging to the z-axis family we can visualize the associated unstable eigensurface. Chaotic orbits close to the periodic orbit remain sticky to this surface for long times (of the order of a Hubble time or more). Among the orbits we studied we found those close to the double unstable orbits of the x1v2 family having the largest diffusion speed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2108

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zbMATH Keywords

invariant manifoldsgalactic dynamics4D surfaces of sectionchaos and dynamical systemsstickiness in chaos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25)

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