Computer Assisted Proof of Drift Orbits Along Normally Hyperbolic Manifolds
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We develop a geometric mechanism to prove the existence of orbits that drift along a prescribed sequence of cylinders, under some general conditions on the dynamics. This mechanism can be used to prove the existence of Arnold diffusion for large families of perturbations of Tonelli Hamiltonians on
The main geometric objects in our framework are
Our main result is on the existence of diffusing orbits which drift along such chains of cylinders, under precise conditions on the dynamics on the cylinders – i.e., the existence of Poincaré sections with the return maps satisfying a tilt condition – and on the geometric properties of the intersections of the center-stable and center-unstable manifolds of the cylinders – i.e., certain compatibility conditions between the tilt map and the homoclinic maps associated to its essential invariant circles.
We give two proofs of our result, a very short and abstract one, and a more constructive one, aimed at possible applications to concrete systems.
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