scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1529668
Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Numerical chaos (65P20) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Motion of charged particles (78A35)
In \textit{G. M. Zaslavsky} et al. [Weak chaos and quasi-regular patterns (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) (1991; Zbl 0745.58004)] the problem of the motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field is considered. After some changes of variables, discretization process and introduction of new dimensionless variables, one obtains the transformation \[ \widehat M_\alpha: \begin{cases} \overline u= (u+ k_0\sin v)\cos \alpha+ v\sin \alpha\\ \overline v= -(u+ k_0\sin v)\sin v+ v\cos\alpha\end{cases} \] which is called the mapping with a twist about the angle \(\alpha\). When the resonance occurs one obtains \[ \widehat M_q: \begin{cases} \overline u=(u+ k_0\sin v)\cos{2\pi\over q}+ v\sin {2\pi\over q}\\ \overline v= -(u+ k_0\sin v)\sin {2\pi\over q}+ v\cos{2\pi\over q}\end{cases} \] In chapter 6 of the above reference the existence of uniform webs for the transformation \(\widehat M_q\) is also discussed and numerical evidence for the appearance of chaotic dynamical behavior in such transformation is obtained. In the paper under review the authors consider \(\widehat M_q\) for \(q=3\) and 4 and use the following criterion. The existence of a transverse heteroclinic cycle implies the existence of a homoclinic point and this can be taken as the proof of chaotic behavior. In fact they give sufficient conditions for two-dimensional mappings of the form \(T(x,y)= (\Phi(x)- y,x)\) to have a transverse heteroclinic two-cycle where \(\Phi\in C^1(\mathbb{R})\) and holds \(\Phi(x)=- \Phi(-x)\) for every \(x\in\mathbb{R}\). The result they obtain reads as follows: If \(k_0> 15.4082\) then the diffeomorphism \(\widehat M_3\) has a transverse homoclinic point. If \(k_0> 8.2959\) then the diffeomorphism \(\widehat M_4\) also has a transverse homoclinic point.
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