# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2013, 33(3): 1089-1112. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1089

## Transition map and shadowing lemma for normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds

 1 Departament de Matemática Aplicada I, ETSEIB-UPC, 08028 Barcelona 2 School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States 3 Departament de Matemática Aplicada I, ETSEIB-UPC, 08028 Barcelona,, Spain

Received  April 2011 Revised  December 2011 Published  October 2012

For a given a normally hyperbolic invariant manifold, whose stable and unstable manifolds intersect transversally, we consider several tools and techniques to detect trajectories with prescribed itineraries: the scattering map, the transition map, the method of correctly aligned windows, and the shadowing lemma. We provide an user's guide on how to apply these tools and techniques to detect unstable orbits in a Hamiltonian system. This consists in the following steps: (i) computation of the scattering map and of the transition map for the Hamiltonian flow, (ii) reduction to the scattering map and to the transition map, respectively, for the return map to some surface of section, (iii) construction of sequences of windows within the surface of section, with the successive pairs of windows correctly aligned, alternately, under the transition map, and under some power of the inner map, (iv) detection of trajectories which follow closely those windows. We illustrate this strategy with two models: the large gap problem for nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems, and the the spatial circular restricted three-body problem.
Citation: Amadeu Delshams, Marian Gidea, Pablo Roldán. Transition map and shadowing lemma for normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (3) : 1089-1112. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1089
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