We study the exponentially small splitting of invariant manifolds of whiskered (hyperbolic) tori with two fast frequencies in nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems whose hyperbolic part is given by a pendulum. We consider a torus whose frequency ratio is the silver number $\Omega = \sqrt{2}−1$. We show that the Poincaré–Melnikov method can be applied to establish the existence of 4 transverse homoclinic orbits to the whiskered torus, and provide asymptotic estimates for the transversality of the splitting whose dependence on the perturbation parameter ε satisfies a periodicity property. We also prove the continuation of the transversality of the homoclinic orbits for all the sufficiently small values of $\varepsilon$, generalizing the results previously known for the golden number.
Keywords:
transverse homoclinic orbits, splitting of separatrices, Melnikov integrals, silver ratio
Citation:
Delshams A., Gonchenko M. S., Gutierrez P., Continuation of the Exponentially Small Transversality for the Splitting of Separatrices to a Whiskered Torus with Silver Ratio, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics,
2014, Volume 19, Number 6,
pp. 663-680