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Critical invariant circles in asymmetric and multiharmonic generalized standard maps Public Deposited
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- Invariant circles play an important role as barriers to transport in the dynamics of area-pre- serving maps. KAM theory guarantees the persistence of some circles for near-integrable maps, but far from the integrable case all circles can be destroyed. A standard method for determining the existence or nonexistence of a circle, Greene’s residue criterion, requires the computation of long-period orbits, which can be difficult if the map has no reversing symmetry. We use de la Llave’s quasi-Newton, Fourier-based scheme to numer- ically compute the conjugacy of a Diophantine circle conjugate to rigid rotation, and the singularity of a norm of a derivative of the conjugacy to predict criticality. We study near-critical conjugacies for families of rotational invariant circles in generalizations of Chirikov’s standard map. A first goal is to obtain evidence to support the long-standing conjecture that when cir- cles breakup they form cantori, as is known for twist maps by Aubry–Mather theory. The location of the largest gaps is compared to the maxima of the potential when anti-integra- ble theory applies. A second goal is to support the conjecture that locally most robust cir- cles have noble rotation numbers, even when the map is not reversible. We show that relative robustness varies inversely with the discriminant for rotation numbers in qua- dratic algebraic fields. Finally, we observe that the rotation number of the globally most robust circle generically appears to be a piecewise-constant function in two-parameter families of maps.
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- 2014-01-01
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- 19
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- 1004-1026
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- 2019-12-05
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- 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.07.028
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