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Horseshoes for autonomous Hamiltonian systems using the Melnikov integral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

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This paper applies the Melnikov method to autonomous perturbations of completely integrable Hamiltonian systems. The forcing of the perturbed system is caused by internal oscillations which are not necessarily decoupled. A unified treatment is presented which relates some results of Holmes and Marsden with a result of Lerman and Umanskii. It is also shown that two forms of the Melnikov function by integrals are in fact equal.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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