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Combinatorics of linear stability for Hamiltonian systems in arbitrary dimension: The B-signature

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Authors:

(1) Agustin Moreno;

(2) Francesco Ruscelli.

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3. The B-signature

In this section, we discuss the notion of B-signature, or B-signs, introduced by the first author and Urs Frauenfelder in [FM], associated to a symmetric periodic orbit (see also [Ay22]).


Consider a Wonenburger matrix






The following result illustrates the uses of these signs, as they give information on the type of periodic orbit.


Theorem 2 ([FMb]). A symmetric periodic orbit of a Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom is negative hyperbolic if and only if its two B-signs are different.




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