Existence of divergent Birkhoff normal forms of Hamiltonian functions

Abstract

We show that for $n\ge 2$ there exist real analytic Hamiltonian systems on ${\mathbf{R}}^{2n}$ with non-resonant eigenvalues at a singular point, of which the Birkhoff normal form itself is divergent. The proof of the result is achieved by analyzing how the small-divisors enter the normal form.

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