Weak Center and Bifurcation of Critical Periods in a Cubic Z2-Equivariant Hamiltonian Vector Field

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1550143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusen Wu ◽  
Wentao Huang ◽  
Yongqiang Suo

This paper focuses on the problems of weak center and local bifurcation of critical periods for a class of cubic Z2-equivariant planar Hamiltonian vector fields. By computing the period constants carefully, one can see that there are three weak centers: (±1, 0) and the origin. The corresponding weak center conditions are also derived. Meanwhile, we address the problem of the coexistence of bifurcation of critical periods that occurred from (±1, 0) and the origin.

1997 ◽  
Vol Vol. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex J. Dragt

International audience It is shown that there is a non-Hamiltonian vector field that provides a Lie algebraic connection between Hamiltonian and Lagrangian optics. With the aid of this connection, geometrical optics can be formulated in such a way that all aberrations are attributed to ray transformations occurring only at lens surfaces. That is, in this formulation there are no aberrations arising from simple transit in a uniform medium. The price to be paid for this formulation is that the Lie algebra of Hamiltonian vector fields must be enlarged to include certain non-Hamiltonian vector fields. It is shown that three such vector fields are required at the level of third-order aberrations, and sufficient machinery is developed to generalize these results to higher order.


1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Rousseau ◽  
B. Toni

AbstractIn this paper we study the local bifurcation of critical periods of periodic orbits in the neighborhood of a nondegenerate centre of a vector field with a homogeneous nonlinearity of the third degree. We show that at most three local critical periods bifurcate from a weak linear centre of finite order or from the linear isochrone and at most two local critical periods from the nonlinear isochrone. Moreover, in both cases, there are perturbations with the maximum number of critical periods.


2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1671-1686 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUBOMIR GAVRILOV ◽  
ILIYA D. ILIEV

We study degree $n$ polynomial perturbations of quadratic reversible Hamiltonian vector fields with one center and one saddle point. It was recently proved that if the first Poincaré–Pontryagin integral is not identically zero, then the exact upper bound for the number of limit cycles on the finite plane is $n-1$. In the present paper we prove that if the first Poincaré–Pontryagin function is identically zero, but the second is not, then the exact upper bound for the number of limit cycles on the finite plane is $2(n-1)$. In the case when the perturbation is quadratic ($n=2$) we obtain a complete result—there is a neighborhood of the initial Hamiltonian vector field in the space of all quadratic vector fields, in which any vector field has at most two limit cycles.


2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergiy Maksymenko

AbstractLet F be a C ∞ vector field defined near the origin O ∈ ℝn, F(O) = 0, and (Ft) be its local flow. Denote by the set of germs of orbit preserving diffeomorphisms h: ℝn → ℝn at O, and let , (r ≥ 0), be the identity component of with respect to the weak Whitney Wr topology. Then contains a subset consisting of maps of the form Fα(x)(x), where α: ℝn → ℝ runs over the space of all smooth germs at O. It was proved earlier by the author that if F is a linear vector field, then = .In this paper we present a class of examples of vector fields with degenerate singularities at O for which formally coincides with , i.e. on the level of ∞-jets at O.We also establish parameter rigidity of linear vector fields and “reduced” Hamiltonian vector fields of real homogeneous polynomials in two variables.


2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (07) ◽  
pp. 1350057 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANÇOIS LALONDE ◽  
ANDREI TELEMAN

The commutator length of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism f ∈ Ham (M,ω) of a closed symplectic manifold (M,ω) is by definition the minimal k such that f can be written as a product of k commutators in Ham (M,ω). We introduce a new invariant for Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, called the k+-area, which measures the "distance", in a certain sense, to the subspace [Formula: see text] of all products of k commutators. Therefore, this invariant can be seen as the obstruction to writing a given Hamiltonian diffeomorphism as a product of k commutators. We also consider an infinitesimal version of the commutator problem: what is the obstruction to writing a Hamiltonian vector field as a linear combination of k Lie brackets of Hamiltonian vector fields? A natural problem related to this question is to describe explicitly, for every fixed k, the set of linear combinations of k such Lie brackets. The problem can be obviously reformulated in terms of Hamiltonians and Poisson brackets. For a given Morse function f on a symplectic Riemann surface M (verifying a weak genericity condition) we describe the linear space of commutators of the form {f, g}, with [Formula: see text].


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (05) ◽  
pp. 1650071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liviu Popescu

In this paper, we study the geometrical structures on the cotangent bundle using the notions of adapted tangent structure and regular vector fields. We prove that the dynamical covariant derivative on [Formula: see text] fix a nonlinear connection for a given [Formula: see text]-regular vector field. Using the Legendre transformation induced by a regular Hamiltonian, we show that a semi-Hamiltonian vector field on [Formula: see text] corresponds to a semispray on [Formula: see text] if and only if the nonlinear connection on [Formula: see text] is just the canonical nonlinear connection induced by the regular Lagrangian.


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