Arnold's instability conjecture for generic elliptic equilibria

Let HH be an analytic Hamiltonian system with an elliptic equilibrium point, having nn degrees of freedom. Assume that n3n\geq 3 and that the quadratic part of the Hamiltonian at the equilibrium is not sign-definite. Arnold's conjecture. An elliptic equilibrium point of a generic analytic Hamiltonian system is Lyapounov unstable. The conjecture is wide open: under the standing real-analytic and non-resonance assumptions, no example is known, although examples exist in resonant or smooth non-analytic settings.

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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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