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Drift orbits for families of twist maps of the annulus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2007

PATRICE LE CALVEZ
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications, C.N.R.S.-U.M.R. 7539, Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13, Avenue J.-B.Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse, France (e-mail: lecalvez@math.univ-paris13.fr)

Abstract

We generalize the classical result of J. Mather stating the existence of a drift orbit inside a region of instability of an exact-symplectic positive twist map, to the case of a finite family ${\cal F}$ of such maps. A special case is the case where the maps $F\in{\cal F}$ have no common invariant continuous graph. We prove the existence of a sequence $(z_i)_{i\in\mathbb{Z}}$ in $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{R}$ and of a sequence $(F_i)_{i\in\mathbb{Z}}$ in ${\cal F}$ such that

\[ z_{i+1}=F_i(z_i),\quad \lim_{i\to -\infty} p_2(z_i)=-\infty,\quad \lim_{i\to +\infty} p_2(z_i)=+\infty, \]

where $p_{2} :(x,y)\mapsto y$ is the second projection.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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