Some perturbation results for nonlinear problems

Publication date 13 July 1994

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/244265

zbMATH Keywords

geodesics periodic solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

Review text

A Hamiltonian system is considered whose Hamiltonian is a combination of a quadratic polynomial corresponding to the linear equations of motion, and a small higher-order part which is treated as a small perturbation. For this system, a brake orbit is defined as an orbit on which the velocity vanishes twice (at two different moments of time). Once the brake orbit is found, one can construct from it a periodic orbit. In this work, a theorem is proven which gives a minimum number of the brake orbits on a surface with a fixed value of energy. Generally speaking, the minimum number is equal to the number of degrees of freedom of the system. The theorem is proven by reducing it to a theorem giving a minimum number of closed geodesics on a sphere with a slightly perturbed metric; in turn, the latter theorem is proven by means of variational methods.

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