On the fragility of periodic tori for families of symplectic twist maps

Abstract

In this article we study the fragility of Lagrangian periodic tori for symplectic twist maps of the $2d$-dimensional annulus and prove a rigidity result for completely integrable ones. More specifically, we consider $1$-parameter families of symplectic twist maps $(f_{\epsilon }{)}_{\epsilon \in \mathbb{R}}$, obtained by perturbing the generating function of an analytic map $f$ by a family of potentials $\{\epsilon G{\}}_{\epsilon \in \mathbb{R}}$. Firstly, for an analytic $G$ and for $(m,n)\in \mathbb{Z}\times {\mathbb{N}}^{\ast }$ with $m$ and $n$ coprime, we investigate the topological structure of the set of $\epsilon \in \mathbb{R}$ for which $f_{\epsilon }$ admits a Lagrangian periodic torus of rotation vector $(m,n)$. In particular we prove that, under a suitable non-degeneracy condition on $f$, this set consists of at most finitely many points. Then, we exploit this to deduce a rigidity result for integrable symplectic twist maps, in the case of deformations produced by a $C^2$ potential. Our analysis, which holds in any dimension, is based on a thorough investigation of the geometric and dynamical properties of Lagrangian periodic tori, which we believe is of its own interest.

arXiv comment37 pages; the title has changed and the structure of the paper has been modified, following the referees' suggestions. This final version has been accepted on "Advances in Mathematics"