Complex Arnol’d – Liouville Maps

Abstract

We discuss the holomorphic properties of the complex continuation of the classical Arnol’d – Liouville action-angle variables for real analytic 1 degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems depending on external parameters in suitable Generic Standard Form, with particular regard to the behaviour near separatrices. In particular, we show that near separatrices the actions, regarded as functions of the energy, have a special universal representation in terms of affine functions of the logarithm with coefficients analytic functions. Then, we study the analyticity radii of the action-angle variables in arbitrary neighborhoods of separatrices and describe their behaviour in terms of a (suitably rescaled) distance from separatrices. Finally, we investigate the convexity of the energy functions (defined as the inverse of the action functions) near separatrices, and prove that, in particular cases (in the outer regions outside the main separatrix, and in the case the potential is close to a cosine), the convexity is strictly defined, while in general it can be shown that inside separatrices there are inflection points.