Kolmogorov : la "k" de KAM

La teoria de Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (o kam) va ser desenvolupada per sistemes dinàmics conservatius que estan prop d’integrables. Típicament els sistemes integrables contenen molts tors invariants en el seu espai de fases. La teoria kam estableix resultats de persistència d’aquests tors, en els quals el moviment és quasiperiòdic. Fem un esbós d’aquesta teoria al voltant de la figura de Kolmogorov

A Global Kam-Theorem: Monodromy in Near-Integrable Perturbations of Spherical Pendulum

The KAM Theory for the persistence of Lagrangean invariant tori in nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems is lobalized to bundles of invariant tori. This leads to globally well-defined conjugations between near-integrable systems and their integrable approximations, defined on nowhere dense sets of positive measure associated to Diophantine frequency vectors. These conjugations are Whitney smooth diffeomorphisms between the corresponding torus bundles. Thus the geometry of the integrable torus bundle is inherited by the near-integrable perturbation. This is of intereet in cases where these bundles are nontrivial. The paper deals with the spherical pendulum as a leading example

Quasi-periodic stability of normally resonant tori

We study quasi-periodic tori under a normal-internal resonance, possibly with multiple eigenvalues. Two non-degeneracy conditions play a role. The first of these generalizes invertibility of the Floquet matrix and prevents drift of the lower dimensional torus. The second condition involves a Kolmogorov-like variation of the internal frequencies and simultaneously versality of the Floquet matrix unfolding. We focus on the reversible setting, but our results carry over to the Hamiltonian and dissipative contexts

Resonances in a spring-pendulum: algorithms for equivariant singularity theory

A spring-pendulum in resonance is a time-independent Hamiltonian model system for formal reduction to one degree of freedom, where some symmetry (reversibility) is maintained. The reduction is handled by equivariant singularity theory with a distinguished parameter, yielding an integrable approximation of the Poincaré map. This makes a concise description of certain bifurcations possible. The computation of reparametrizations from normal form to the actual system is performed by Gröbner basis techniques.

Pacer cell response to periodic Zeitgebers

Almost all organisms show some kind of time periodicity in their behavior. Especially in mammals the neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus form a biological clock regulating the activity-inactivity cycle of the animal. This clock is stimulated by the natural 24-hour light-dark cycle. In our model of this system we consider each neuron as a so called phase oscillator, coupled to other neurons for which the light-dark cycle is a Zeitgeber. To simplify the model we first take an externally stimulated single phase oscillator. The first part of the phase interval is called the active state and the remaining part is the inactive state. Without external stimulus the oscillator oscillates with its intrinsic period. An external stimulus, be it from activity of neighboring cells or the periodic daylight cycle, acts twofold, it may delay the change form active to inactive and it may advance the return to the active state. The amount of delay and advance depends on the strength of the stimulus. We use a circle map as a mathematical model for this system. This map depends on several parameters, among which the intrinsic period and phase delay and advance. In parameter space we find Arnol'd tongues where the system is in resonance with the Zeitgeber. Thus already in this simplified system we find entrainment and synchronization. Also some other phenomena from biological experiments and observations can be related to the dynamical behavior of the circle map