Herman's conjecture on KAM stability of Diophantine elliptic equilibria

Let HH be a real-analytic Hamiltonian with an elliptic equilibrium at the origin, and let αRn\alpha\in\mathbb R^n be the frequency vector of the linear part of the flow. Recall that α\alpha is Diophantine if there exist γ>0\gamma>0 and τn1\tau\geq n-1 such that

kαγk1τ|k\cdot\alpha|\geq\gamma|k|_1^{-\tau}

for every k=(k1,,kn)Zn{0}k=(k_1,\dots,k_n)\in\mathbb Z^n\setminus\{0\}, where k1=k1++kn|k|_1=|k_1|+\cdots+|k_n|. Herman's conjecture. If α\alpha is Diophantine, then every sufficiently small neighborhood of the origin contains a set of positive Lebesgue measure consisting of Lagrangian invariant tori. This asserts KAM stability without any non-degeneracy assumption. It is known for n=2n=2, even in the smooth category, but remains unknown in general.

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Abed Bounemoura, Bassam Fayad and Laurent Niederman, “Double exponential stability for generic real-analytic elliptic equilibrium points”, arXiv:1509.00285 (2015).

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