The genericity, freedom and velocity conjectures for Arnold diffusion

Let H=H0+εH1+ε2H2H=H_0+\varepsilon H_1+\varepsilon^2H_2 be the nonautonomous near-integrable Hamiltonian system described above, with normally hyperbolic invariant manifold NN foliated by invariant tori NyN_y and separatrices forming a figure-eight. A diffusion trajectory is a trajectory whose projection to the yy-space makes a substantial displacement through the domain D\mathcal D.

Arnold diffusion conjecture. For sufficiently large rN,ωr\in{\mathbb N}\cup\\{\infty,\omega\\} and an open dense set of CrC^r perturbations: (A) diffusion exists; (B) the projection of a diffusion trajectory to the yy-space can remain in a small neighborhood of any smooth curve χD\chi\subset\mathcal D; and (C) there are fast diffusion trajectories whose average velocity along χ\chi is of order ε/logε\varepsilon/\log\varepsilon.

These are the genericity, freedom and velocity aspects of Arnold diffusion in the a priori unstable case. The statement concerns the existence and controllability of diffusion trajectories near the asymptotic manifolds of the normally hyperbolic invariant manifold, together with the conjectured fastest scale of diffusion.

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Sergey Bolotin and Dmitry Treschev, “Anti-integrable limit”, arXiv:1601.06093 (2016).

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