The conjecture on an open set of helical asymptotic orbits
The conjecture on an open set of helical asymptotic orbits
Consider the Heisenberg-group dynamical system described above, with initial conditions and orbits under its Hamiltonian flow. An orbit is asymptotic to a helix if it approaches a helical trajectory in the relevant asymptotic sense. Helical-orbit conjecture. There is an open set of initial conditions whose orbits are asymptotic to helices.
This conjecture proposes that helical asymptotic behavior is not exceptional but occurs for a stable family of initial conditions. The preceding invariant-submanifold analysis exhibits conic behavior on a codimension-three submanifold, but does not establish the conjectured open-set behavior in the full dynamics.
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Richard Montgomery and Corey Shanbrom, “Keplerian Dynamics on the Heisenberg Group and Elsewhere”, arXiv:1212.2713 (2012).
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