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This paper is devoted to study the stochastic behaviour of some Hamiltonian systems with closed velocity curves. We investigate Hamiltonians already studied by Ali and Somorjai (1). These authors, by discussing Poincaré's surfaces of section for several energy values, gave a qualitative evaluation of the stochasticity of the systems.
Here we present a quantitative study of this stochastic behaviour. For each energy we compute the Lyapunov characteristic exponents of fifty orbits chosen at random, in order to calculate the Kolmogorov entropy by Pesin's formula. Our results are in agreement with those of Ali and Somorjai: the disorder does not increase monotonically with increasing energy. However, we find that the largest entropy does not necessarily correspond to the maximum of the stochastic volume. The Kolmogorov entropy thus appears to be a good measure of the degree of disorder of dynamical systems.
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Gonczi, R., Froeschlé, C. & Froeschlé, C. Kolmogorov entropy as a measure of disorder in some non-integrable Hamiltonian systems. Celestial Mechanics 34, 117–124 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01235794
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