Continuity of the Peierls barrier and robustness of laminations

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2013.101zbMATH Open1364.37135arXiv1308.3073OpenAlexW3104733013MaRDI QIDQ5262264FDOQ5262264

Authors: Blaž Mramor, Bob W. Rink 

Publication date: 13 July 2015

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the Peierls barrier for a broad class of monotone variational problems. These problems arise naturally in solid state physics and from Hamiltonian twist maps. We start with the case of a fixed local potential and derive an estimate for the difference of the periodic Peierls barrier and the Peierls barrier of a general rotation number in a given point. A similar estimate was obtained by Mather in the context of twist maps, but our proof is different and applies more generally. It follows from the estimate that the Peierls barrier is continuous at irrational points. Moreover, we show that the Peierls barrier depends continuously on parameters and hence that the property that a monotone variational problem admits a lamination of minimizers for a given rotation number, is open in the C1-topology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3073

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zbMATH Keywords

variational methodsmall divisorquasi-periodicAubry-Mather theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40)

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