PROGRAMA INTER-UNIVERSITÁRIO DE DOUTORAMENTO EM MATEMÁTICA

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On the stability of the set of hyperbolic closed orbits of a hamiltonian

Publication . Bessa, Mário; Ferreira, Celia; Rocha, Jorge

A Hamiltonian level, say a pair $(H,e)$ of a Hamiltonian $H$ and an energy $e \in \mathbb{R}$, is said to be Anosov if there exists a connected component $\mathcal{E}_{H,e}$ of $H^{-1}({e})$ which is uniformly hyperbolic for the Hamiltonian flow $X_H^t$. The pair $(H,e)$ is said to be a Hamiltonian star system if there exists a connected component $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ of the energy level $H^{-1}({{e}})$ such that all the closed orbits and all the critical points of $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ are hyperbolic, and the same holds for a connected component of the energy level $\tilde{H}^{-1}({\tilde{e}})$, close to $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$, for any Hamiltonian $\tilde{H}$, in some $C^2$-neighbourhood of $H$, and $\tilde{e}$ in some neighbourhood of $e$. In this article we prove that for any four-dimensional Hamiltonian star level $(H,e)$ if the surface $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ does not contain critical points, then $X_H^t|_{\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}}$ is Anosov; if $\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,e}$ has critical points, then there exists $\tilde{e}$, arbitrarily close to $e$, such that $X_H^t|_{\mathcal{E}^\star_{H,\tilde{e}}}$ is Anosov.

2009-09-21Journal article

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Generic hamiltonian dynamics

Publication . Bessa, Mário; Ferreira, Célia; Rocha, Jorge; Varandas, Paulo

In this paper we contribute to the generic theory of Hamiltonians by proving that there is a C2-residual R in the set of C2 Hamiltonians on a closed symplectic manifold M, such that, for any H ∈ R, there is a full measure subset of energies e in H(M) such that the Hamiltonian level (H, e) is topologically mixing; moreover these level sets are homoclinic classes.

2017Journal article

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