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Canonical Melnikov theory for diffeomorphisms
We study perturbations of diffeomorphisms that have a saddle connection
between a pair of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. We develop a
first-order deformation calculus for invariant manifolds and show that a
generalized Melnikov function or Melnikov displacement can be written in a
canonical way. This function is defined to be a section of the normal bundle of
the saddle connection.
We show how our definition reproduces the classical methods of Poincar\'{e}
and Melnikov and specializes to methods previously used for exact symplectic
and volume-preserving maps. We use the method to detect the transverse
intersection of stable and unstable manifolds and relate this intersection to
the set of zeros of the Melnikov displacement.Comment: laTeX, 31 pages, 3 figure
Melnikov's method in String Theory
Melnikov's method is an analytical way to show the existence of classical
chaos generated by a Smale horseshoe. It is a powerful technique, though its
applicability is somewhat limited. In this paper, we present a solution of type
IIB supergravity to which Melnikov's method is applicable. This is a brane-wave
type deformation of the AdSS background. By employing two
reduction ans\"atze, we study two types of coupled pendulum-oscillator systems.
Then the Melnikov function is computed for each of the systems by following the
standard way of Holmes and Marsden and the existence of chaos is shown
analytically.Comment: 37 pages, 5 figure
Horseshoes and Arnold Diffusion for Hamiltonian Systems on Lie Groups
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Part I. The Cosmological Vacuum from a Topological Perspective
This article examines how the physical presence of field energy and
particulate matter can be interpreted in terms of the topological properties of
space-time. The theory is developed in terms of vector and matrix equations of
exterior differential systems, which are not constrained by tensor
diffeomorphic equivalences. The first postulate defines the field properties (a
vector space continuum) of the Cosmological Vacuum in terms of matrices of
basis functions that map exact differentials into neighborhoods of exterior
differential 1-forms (potentials). The second postulate requires that the field
equations must satisfy the First Law of Thermodynamics dynamically created in
terms of the Lie differential with respect to a process direction field acting
on the exterior differential forms that encode the thermodynamic system. The
vector space of infinitesimals need not be global and its compliment is used to
define particle properties as topological defects embedded in the field vector
space. The potentials, as exterior differential 1-forms, are not (necessarily)
uniquely integrable: the fibers can be twisted, leading to possible Chiral
matrix arrays of certain 3-forms defined as Topological Torsion and Topological
Spin. A significant result demonstrates how the coefficients of Affine Torsion
are related to the concept of Field excitations (mass and charge); another
demonstrates how thermodynamic evolution can describe the emergence of
topological defects in the physical vacuum.Comment: 70 pages, 5 figure
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