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

Abstract

Recently, we presented two methods of constructing periodic orbit dividing surfaces for Hamiltonian systems with three or more degrees of freedom [Katsanikas & Wiggins, 2021a, 2021b]. These methods were illustrated with an application to a quadratic normal form Hamiltonian system with three degrees of freedom. More precisely, in these papers we constructed a section of the dividing surfaces that intersect with the hypersurface [Formula: see text]. This was motivated by studies in reaction dynamics since in this model reaction occurs when the sign of the [Formula: see text] coordinate changes. In this paper, we continue the work of the third paper [Katsanikas & Wiggins, 2023] of this series of papers to construct the full dividing surfaces that are obtained by our algorithms and to prove the no-recrossing property. In the third paper we did this for the dividing surfaces of the first method [Katsanikas & Wiggins, 2021a]. Now we are doing the same for the dividing surfaces of the second method [Katsanikas & Wiggins, 2021b]. In addition, we computed the dividing surfaces of the second method for a coupled case of the quadratic normal form Hamiltonian system and we compared our results with those of the uncoupled case. This paper completes this series of papers about the construction of periodic orbit dividing surfaces for Hamiltonian systems with three or more degrees of freedom.