Candidate anharmonic reactive width from the classical normal form
Candidate anharmonic reactive width from the classical normal form
Let be a truncated classical normal form near an index-1 saddle, where is the reaction integral and are the bath actions. On the normally hyperbolic invariant manifold (NHIM), set . For each bath mode, define
For energies sufficiently close to the saddle, candidate anharmonic reactive width. The transverse reactive width scale should be
This is intended as a candidate width for a bounded full-dimensional neighborhood of the bottleneck, rather than as a proven formula for the exact Gromov width of an arbitrary reactive domain. The claim is suggested by the local normal-form geometry and remains unproved in the stated generality.
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Stephen Wiggins, “Symplectic Constraints in Classical Reaction Dynamics: From Gromov's Camel to Reaction Rates”, arXiv:2604.10408 (2026).
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