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Published January 15, 1981 | Published
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On the onset of chaotic motion in deterministic systems

Abstract

In the present paper the classical counterpart of the quantum avoided crossing method for detecting chaos is described using classical (Lie-transform) perturbation theory and a grid of action variables. The results are applied to two systems of coupled oscillators with cubic and quartic nonlinearities. The plots of energy of members of the grid versus the perturbation parameter provide a visual description for predicting the onset of chaos.

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Copyright © 1981 American Institute of Physics. Received 16 June 1980; accepted for 26 September 1980. We are pleased to acknowledge support of this research by a grant from the National Science Foundation. We have greatly benefited from conversations with Alan Weinstein. Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, Contribution No. 6240.

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