Arnold's diffusion conjecture for nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems

Let hh be an integrable Hamiltonian on the action space, let PP be a generic perturbation, and consider the nearly integrable Hamiltonian

H(x,y)=h(y)+εP(x,y),(x,y)Tn×D.H(x,y)=h(y)+\varepsilon P(x,y),\qquad (x,y)\in\mathbb T^n\times D.

For any two points yy' and yy” on the connected level hypersurface of hh in the action space, Arnold's diffusion conjecture. there exist orbits of HH connecting an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the torus y=yy=y' with an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the torus y=yy=y”, provided that ε0\varepsilon\neq 0 is sufficiently small and PP is generic.

This conjecture predicts large-scale drift in the action variables of nearly integrable systems with at least three degrees of freedom, beyond the confinement supplied by invariant KAM tori. The source presents it as Arnold's conjecture; its resolution status is not specified here.

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Jinxin Xue, “Arnold diffusion and geodesic dynamics of blackholes”, arXiv:2012.03047 (2020).

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