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Unicity of KAM tori

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2007

HENK BROER
Affiliation:
Instituut voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Blauwborgje 3, 9747 AC Groningen, The Netherlands (e-mail: broer@math.rug.nl, f.takens@math.rug.nl)
FLORIS TAKENS
Affiliation:
Instituut voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Blauwborgje 3, 9747 AC Groningen, The Netherlands (e-mail: broer@math.rug.nl, f.takens@math.rug.nl)

Abstract

The classical KAM theorem establishes the persistence of invariant Lagrangean tori in nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems. These tori are quasi-periodic with Diophantine frequency vectors and their union is a nowhere dense set of positive measure in phase space. A long-standing question is to what extent the perturbed tori are unique. Using the fact that at the level of tori there exists a Whitney smooth conjugacy between the integrable approximation and its perturbation, we are able to prove this unicity. The unicity result is valid on a closed subset of the Diophantine torus union of full measure.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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