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The Lyapunov exponents and the neighbourhood of periodic orbits
Fecha
2020-05Registro en:
Carpintero, Daniel Diego; Muzzio, Juan Carlos; The Lyapunov exponents and the neighbourhood of periodic orbits; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 495; 2; 5-2020; 1608-1612
0035-8711
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Carpintero, Daniel Diego
Muzzio, Juan Carlos
Resumen
We show that the Lyapunov exponents of a periodic orbit can be easily obtained from the eigenvalues of the monodromy matrix. It turns out that the Lyapunov exponents of simply stable periodic orbits are all zero, simply unstable periodic orbits have only one positive Lyapunov exponent, doubly unstable periodic orbits have two different positive Lyapunov exponents and the two positive Lyapunov exponents of complex unstable periodic orbits are equal. We present a numerical example for periodic orbits in a realistic galactic potential. Moreover, the center manifold theorem allowed us to show that stable, simply unstable and doubly unstable periodic orbits are the mothers of families of, respectively, regular, partially and fully chaotic orbits in their neighbourhood.