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Construction of invariant whiskered tori by a parameterization method. Part I: Maps and flows in finite dimensions
We present theorems which provide the existence of invariant whiskered tori
in finite-dimensional exact symplectic maps and flows. The method is based on
the study of a functional equation expressing that there is an invariant torus.
We show that, given an approximate solution of the invariance equation which
satisfies some non-degeneracy conditions, there is a true solution nearby. We
call this an {\sl a posteriori} approach.
The proof of the main theorems is based on an iterative method to solve the
functional equation.
The theorems do not assume that the system is close to integrable nor that it
is written in action-angle variables (hence we can deal in a unified way with
primary and secondary tori). It also does not assume that the hyperbolic
bundles are trivial and much less that the hyperbolic motion can be reduced to
constant.
The a posteriori formulation allows us to justify approximate solutions
produced by many non-rigorous methods (e.g. formal series expansions, numerical
methods). The iterative method is not based on transformation theory, but
rather on succesive corrections. This makes it possible to adapt the method
almost verbatim to several infinite-dimensional situations, which we will
discuss in a forthcoming paper. We also note that the method leads to fast and
efficient algorithms. We plan to develop these improvements in forthcoming
papers.Comment: To appear in JD
Domains of analyticity of Lindstedt expansions of KAM tori in dissipative perturbations of Hamiltonian systems
Many problems in Physics are described by dynamical systems that are
conformally symplectic (e.g., mechanical systems with a friction proportional
to the velocity, variational problems with a small discount or thermostated
systems). Conformally symplectic systems are characterized by the property that
they transform a symplectic form into a multiple of itself. The limit of small
dissipation, which is the object of the present study, is particularly
interesting.
We provide all details for maps, but we present also the modifications needed
to obtain a direct proof for the case of differential equations. We consider a
family of conformally symplectic maps defined on a
-dimensional symplectic manifold with exact symplectic form
; we assume that satisfies
. We assume that the family
depends on a -dimensional parameter (called drift) and also on a small
scalar parameter . Furthermore, we assume that the conformal factor
depends on , in such a way that for we have
(the symplectic case).
We study the domains of analyticity in near of
perturbative expansions (Lindstedt series) of the parameterization of the
quasi--periodic orbits of frequency (assumed to be Diophantine) and of
the parameter . Notice that this is a singular perturbation, since any
friction (no matter how small) reduces the set of quasi-periodic solutions in
the system. We prove that the Lindstedt series are analytic in a domain in the
complex plane, which is obtained by taking from a ball centered at
zero a sequence of smaller balls with center along smooth lines going through
the origin. The radii of the excluded balls decrease faster than any power of
the distance of the center to the origin
Perturbative calculation of quasi-potential in non-equilibrium diffusions: a mean-field example
In stochastic systems with weak noise, the logarithm of the stationary
distribution becomes proportional to a large deviation rate function called the
quasi-potential. The quasi-potential, and its characterization through a
variational problem, lies at the core of the Freidlin-Wentzell large deviations
theory%.~\cite{freidlin1984}.In many interacting particle systems, the particle
density is described by fluctuating hydrodynamics governed by Macroscopic
Fluctuation Theory%, ~\cite{bertini2014},which formally fits within
Freidlin-Wentzell's framework with a weak noise proportional to ,
where is the number of particles. The quasi-potential then appears as a
natural generalization of the equilibrium free energy to non-equilibrium
particle systems. A key physical and practical issue is to actually compute
quasi-potentials from their variational characterization for non-equilibrium
systems for which detailed balance does not hold. We discuss how to perform
such a computation perturbatively in an external parameter , starting
from a known quasi-potential for . In a general setup, explicit
iterative formulae for all terms of the power-series expansion of the
quasi-potential are given for the first time. The key point is a proof of
solvability conditions that assure the existence of the perturbation expansion
to all orders. We apply the perturbative approach to diffusive particles
interacting through a mean-field potential. For such systems, the variational
characterization of the quasi-potential was proven by Dawson and Gartner%.
~\cite{dawson1987,dawson1987b}. Our perturbative analysis provides new explicit
results about the quasi-potential and about fluctuations of one-particle
observables in a simple example of mean field diffusions: the
Shinomoto-Kuramoto model of coupled rotators%. ~\cite{shinomoto1986}. This is
one of few systems for which non-equilibrium free energies can be computed and
analyzed in an effective way, at least perturbatively
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