Numerical Computation of Critical Surfaces for the Breakup of Invariant Tori in Hamiltonian Systems

Abstract

We compute the critical surface for the existence of invariant tori of a family of Hamiltonian systems with two and three degrees of freedom. We use and compare two methods to compute the critical surfaces: renormalization-group transformations and conjugation in configuration space. We unveil the presence of cusps in the critical surface for the breakup of three-dimensional invariant tori, whereas the critical surface of two-dimensional invariant tori is expected to be smooth.