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# Nikolay Martynchuk

University of Groningen

## Publications:

 Martynchuk N., Waalkens H. Knauf’s Degree and Monodromy in Planar Potential Scattering 2016, vol. 21, no. 6, pp.  697-706 Abstract We consider Hamiltonian systems on $(T^{*}\mathbb R^2, dq \wedge dp)$ defined by a Hamiltonian function $H$ of the “classical” form $H = p^2/2 + V (q)$. A reasonable decay assumption $V(q) \to 0, \, \|q\| \to \infty$, allows one to compare a given distribution of initial conditions at $t = −\infty$ with their final distribution at $t = +\infty$. To describe this Knauf introduced a topological invariant $\text{deg}(E)$, which, for a nontrapping energy $E > 0$, is given by the degree of the scattering map. For rotationally symmetric potentials $V = W(\|q\|)$, scattering monodromy has been introduced independently as another topological invariant. In the present paper we demonstrate that, in the rotationally symmetric case, Knauf’s degree $\text{deg}(E)$ and scattering monodromy are related to one another. Specifically, we show that scattering monodromy is given by the jump of the degree $\text{deg}(E)$, which appears when the nontrapping energy $E$ goes from low to high values. Keywords: Hamiltonian system, Liouville integrability, nontrapping degree of scattering, scattering monodromy Citation: Martynchuk N., Waalkens H.,  Knauf’s Degree and Monodromy in Planar Potential Scattering, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, 2016, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 697-706 DOI:10.1134/S1560354716060095