Abstract. The dynamics occurring near a heteroclinic cycle between a hyperbolic equilibrium and a hyperbolic periodic orbit is analyzed. The case of interest is when the equilibrium has a onedimensional unstable manifold and a two-dimensional stable manifold while the stable and unstable manifolds of the periodic orbit are both two-dimensional. A codimension-two heteroclinic cycle occurs when t...

A quantum generalization of the semiclassical theory of Gutzwiller is given. The new formulation leads to systematic orbit-by-orbit inclusion of higher h̄ contributions to the spectral determinant. We apply the theory to billiard systems, and compare the periodic orbit quantization including the first h̄ contribution to the exact quantum mechanical results. Typeset using REVTEX

The global constraints on chaotic dynamics induced by the analyticity of smooth flows are used to dispense with individual periodic orbits and derive infinite families of exact sum rules for several simple dynamical systems. The associated Fredholm determinants are of particularly simple polynomial form. The theory developed suggests an alternative to the conventional periodic orbit theory appr...

By using the foundational solutions of the linear variational equation of the unperturbed system along the heteroclinic orbits to establish the local coordinate systems in the small tubular neighborhoods of the heteroclinic orbits, we study the bifurcation problems of nontwisted heteroclinic loop with resonant eigenvalues. The existence, numbers, and existence regions of 1-heteroclinic loop, 1-...

We apply periodic-orbit theory to calculate the integrated density of states N(k) of the quantum mechanical eigenvalues from the periodic orbits of pseudointegrable polygon and barrier billiards. We show that the results agree so well with the density of states obtained from numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation that about the first 100 eigenvalues can be obtained directly from the pe...

We consider asymptotic orbit-counting problems for certain expansive actions by commuting automorphisms of compact groups. A dichotomy is found between systems with asymptotically more periodic orbits than the topological entropy predicts, and those for which there is no excess of periodic orbits. Let G be a countable group acting on some set X, with the action written x 7→ g.x. Let L = L(G) de...

We derive a trace formula for ∑ n AnnBnn . . . δ(E − En), where Ann is the diagonal matrix element of the operator A in the energy basis of a chaotic system. The result takes the form of a smooth term plus periodic-orbit corrections; each orbit is weighted by the usual Gutzwiller factor times ApBp . . ., where Ap is the average of the classical observable A along the periodic orbit p. This stru...

1. INTRODUCTION. The trajectory of a billiard ball in motion on a frictionless billiards table is completely determined by its initial position, direction, and speed. When the ball strikes a bumper, we assume that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. Once released, the ball continues indefinitely along its trajectory with constant speed unless it strikes a vertex, at which poi...

Consider a dynamical system given by a planar differential equation, which exhibits an unstable periodic orbit surrounding a stable periodic orbit. It is known that under random perturbations, the distribution of locations where the system’s first exit from the interior of the unstable orbit occurs, typically displays the phenomenon of cycling: The distribution of first-exit locations is transl...