Chaos near resonance

by György Haller

"This book offers the first systematic exposition of recent analytic results that can be used to understand and predict the global effect of resonances in phase space. The geometric methods discussed here enable one to identify complicated multi-time-scale solution sets and slow-fast chaos in physical problems. The topics include slow and partially slow manifolds, homoclinic and heteroclinic jumping, universal global bifurcations, generalized Silnikov-orbits and -manifolds, disintegration of invariant manifolds near resonances, and high-codimension homoclinic jumping. The main emphasis is on near-integrable dissipative systems, but a separate chapter is devoted to resonance phenomena in Hamiltonian systems. A number of applications are described from the areas of fluid mechanics, rigid body dynamics, chemistry, atmospheric science, and nonlinear optics. In addition, the theory is extended to infinite dimensions to cover resonances in certain nonlinear partial differential equations, su