The Generalization of the Periodic Orbit Dividing Surface for Hamiltonian Systems with Three or More Degrees of Freedom-III

Abstract

In two previous papers [Katsanikas & Wiggins, 2021a, 2021b], we developed two methods for the construction of periodic orbit dividing surfaces for Hamiltonian systems with three or more degrees of freedom. We applied the first method (see [Katsanikas & Wiggins, 2021a]) in the case of a quadratic Hamiltonian system in normal form with three degrees of freedom, constructing a geometrical object that is the section of a 4D toroidal structure in the 5D energy surface with the space [Formula: see text]. We provide a more detailed geometrical description of this object within the family of 4D toratopes. We proved that this object is a dividing surface and it has the no-recrossing property. In this paper, we extend the results for the case of the full 4D toroidal object in the 5D energy surface. Then we compute this toroidal object in the 5D energy surface of a coupled quadratic normal form Hamiltonian system with three degrees of freedom.