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    General KAM theorems and their applications to invariant tori with prescribed frequencies

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    In this paper we develop some new KAM-technique to prove two general KAM theorems for nearly integrable hamiltonian systems without assuming any non-degeneracy condition. Many of KAM-type results (including the classical KAM theorem) are special cases of our theorems under some non-degeneracy condition and some smoothness condition. Moreover, we can obtain some interesting results about KAM tori with prescribed frequencies

    Weak KAM for commuting Hamiltonians

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    For two commuting Tonelli Hamiltonians, we recover the commutation of the Lax-Oleinik semi-groups, a result of Barles and Tourin ([BT01]), using a direct geometrical method (Stoke's theorem). We also obtain a "generalization" of a theorem of Maderna ([Mad02]). More precisely, we prove that if the phase space is the cotangent of a compact manifold then the weak KAM solutions (or viscosity solutions of the critical stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation) for G and for H are the same. As a corrolary we obtain the equality of the Aubry sets, of the Peierls barrier and of flat parts of Mather's α\alpha functions. This is also related to works of Sorrentino ([Sor09]) and Bernard ([Ber07b]).Comment: 23 pages, accepted for publication in NonLinearity (january 29th 2010). Minor corrections, fifth part added on Mather's α\alpha function (or effective Hamiltonian

    Quantum Transport on KAM Tori

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    Although quantum tunneling between phase space tori occurs, it is suppressed in the semiclassical limit 0\hbar\searrow 0 for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation of a particle in \bR^d under the influence of a smooth periodic potential. In particular this implies that the distribution of quantum group velocities near energy EE converges to the distribution of the classical asymptotic velocities near EE, up to a term of the order \cO(1/\sqrt{E}).Comment: 21 page
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