A Metaphor for Adiabatic Evolution to Symmetry

DOI10.1137/S0036139995289568MaRDI QIDQ4377356zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors R. Huveneers, Ferdinand Verhulst

Publication date 9 February 1998

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9508004

zbMATH Keywords

adiabaticaveraginginvariantsymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Averaging method for ordinary differential equations (34C29) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10) Singular perturbations for ordinary differential equations (34E15) Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX)

Abstract: In this paper we study a Hamiltonian system with a spatially asymmetric potential. We are interested in the effects on the dynamics when the potential becomes symmetric slowly in time. We focus on a highly simplified non-trivial model problem (a metaphor) to be able to pursue explicit calculations as far as possible. Using the techniques of averaging and adiabatic invariants, we are able to study all bounded solutions, which reveals significant asymmetric dynamics even when the asymmetric contributions to the potential have become negligibly small.

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