Seminar 10.20.16 Chen

Title: Two types of KAM-nondegenerate nearly integrable systems with positive metric entropy

Speaker: Dong Chen (Penn State)

Abstract: The celebrated KAM Theory says that if one makes a small perturbation of a non-degenerate completely integrable system, we still have a huge measure of invariant tori with quasi-periodic dynamics in the perturbed system. These invariant tori are known as KAM tori. What happens outside KAM tori draws lots of attention. In this talk I will present two types of C^\infty small Lagrangian perturbation of the geodesic flow on a flat torus. Both resulting flows have positive metric entropy, from which we get positive metric entropy outside some KAM tori. What is special in the second type is that positive metric entropy comes from an arbitrarily small tubular neighborhood of one trajectory. This is a joint work with D. Burago and S. Ivanov.