Persistance d’orbites périodiques relatives dans les systèmes hamiltoniens symétriques

Abstract

It was known to Poincaré that a non-degenerate periodic orbit in a Hamiltonian system persists to nearby energy-levels. In this Note, we consider the analogous problem for relative periodic orbits in symmetric Hamiltonian systems. We show that non-degenerate relative periodic orbits also persist when shifting to nearby values of the energy-momentum map, under the hypothesis that the group of symmetries acts freely.