Continuity of the Peierls barrier and robustness of laminations

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2013.101MaRDI QIDQ5262264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Blaž Mramor, Bob W. Rink

Publication date 13 July 2015

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

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

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)

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.

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