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Geometric Approach to Lyapunov Analysis in Hamiltonian Dynamics
Yamaguchi Y. Yoshiyuki ; Iwai Toshihiro ;
Date 3 Apr 2001
Journal Phys.Rev.E, Vol.64 (2001) 066206
Subject Chaotic Dynamics | nlin.CD
AbstractAs is widely recognized in Lyapunov analysis, linearized Hamilton’s equations of motion have two marginal directions for which the Lyapunov exponents vanish. Those directions are the tangent one to a Hamiltonian flow and the gradient one of the Hamiltonian function. To separate out these two directions and to apply Lyapunov analysis effectively in directions for which Lyapunov exponents are not trivial, a geometric method is proposed for natural Hamiltonian systems, in particular. In this geometric method, Hamiltonian flows of a natural Hamiltonian system are regarded as geodesic flows on the cotangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold with a suitable metric. Stability/instability of the geodesic flows is then analyzed by linearized equations of motion which are related to the Jacobi equations on the Riemannian manifold. On some geometric setting on the cotangent bundle, it is shown that along a geodesic flow in question, there exist Lyapunov vectors such that two of them are in the two marginal directions and the others orthogonal to the marginal directions. It is also pointed out that Lyapunov vectors with such properties can not be obtained in general by the usual method which uses linearized Hamilton’s equations of motion. Furthermore, it is observed from numerical calculation for a model system that Lyapunov exponents calculated in both methods, geometric and usual, coincide with each other, independently of the choice of the methods.
Source arXiv, nlin.CD/0104005
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