Smooth Hamiltonian systems with soft impacts

DOI10.1137/130947337zbMATH Open1308.70028arXiv1312.0827OpenAlexW3104170469MaRDI QIDQ2940709FDOQ2940709

Authors: Michal Kloc, V. Rom-Kedar 

Publication date: 20 January 2015

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a Hamiltonian system with impacts (or "billiard with potential"), a point particle moves about the interior of a bounded domain according to a background potential, and undergoes elastic collisions at the boundaries. When the background potential is identically zero, this is the hard-wall billiard model. Previous results on smooth billiard models (where the hard-wall boundary is replaced by a steep smooth billiard-like potential) have clarified how the approximation of a smooth billiard with a hard-wall billiard may be utilized rigorously. These results are extended here to models with smooth background potential satisfying some natural conditions. This generalization is then applied to geometric models of collinear triatomic chemical reactions (the models are far from integrable $n$-degree of freedom systems with $ngeq2$). The application demonstrates that the simpler analytical calculations for the hard-wall system may be used to obtain qualitative information with regard to the solution structure of the smooth system and to quantitatively assist in finding solutions of the soft impact system by continuation methods. In particular, stable periodic triatomic configurations are easily located for the smooth highly-nonlinear two and three degree of freedom geometric models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0827

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zbMATH Keywords

chemical reactionsHamiltonian chaostransition state theoryHill's region

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems, KAM theory (70H08) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12) Nonintegrable systems for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H07) Stability problems for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H14) Perturbation theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H09) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35) Chemistry (general) in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A50)

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