Invariant Manifolds In Discrete And Continuous Dynamical Systems

Invariant Manifolds in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

In this book, dynamical systems are investigated from a geometric viewpoint. Admitting an invariant manifold is a strong geometric property of a dynamical system. This text presents rigorous results on invariant manifolds and gives examples of possible applications. In the first part, discrete dynamical systems in Banach spaces are considered. Results on the existence and smoothness of attractive and repulsive invariant manifolds are derived. In addition, perturbations and approximations of the manifolds and the foliation of the adjacent space are treated. In the second part, analogous results for continuous dynamical systems in finite dimensions are established. In the third part, the theory developed is applied to problems in numerical analysis and to singularly perturbed systems of ordinary differential equations. The mathematical approach is based on the so-called graph transform, already used by Hadamard in 1901. The aim is to establish invariant manifold results in a simple setting that provides quantitative estimates. The book is targeted at researchers in the field of dynamical systems interested in precise theorems that are easy to apply. The application part might also serve as an underlying text for a student seminar in mathematics.

Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds in Dynamical Systems

In the past ten years, there has been much progress in understanding the global dynamics of systems with several degrees-of-freedom. An important tool in these studies has been the theory of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds and foliations of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. In recent years these techniques have been used for the development of global perturbation methods, the study of resonance phenomena in coupled oscillators, geometric singular perturbation theory, and the study of bursting phenomena in biological oscillators. "Invariant manifold theorems" have become standard tools for applied mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and virtually anyone working on nonlinear problems from a geometric viewpoint. In this book, the author gives a self-contained development of these ideas as well as proofs of the main theorems along the lines of the seminal works of Fenichel. In general, the Fenichel theory is very valuable for many applications, but it is not easy for people to get into from existing literature. This book provides an excellent avenue to that. Wiggins also describes a variety of settings where these techniques can be used in applications.

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems