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Stabilité ou instabilité des points fixes elliptiques. (Stability or instability of elliptic fixed points). (French) Zbl 0656.58020

This long and thorough paper shows that J. Moser’s result on topological stability of an elliptic fixed point of a smooth area preserving plane diffeomorphism has no generalization to symplectic diffeomorphisms of higher dimensional symplectic manifolds. Here, topological stability cannot be read off the jet of infinite order of the diffeomorphism at the fixed point. Under mild nondegeneracy conditions, in dimensions \(\geq 4\), a symplectic diffeomorphism enjoying a totally elliptic fixed point can be modified to one for which the fixed point is topologically stable, as well as to one for which the fixed point is topologically unstable, without changing the jet of infinite order at the fixed point. Moreover, the modifications can be found in any \(C^{\infty}\) neighborhood. (Cf. II.2, II.3). Analogue results hold if an invariant torus, provided by the theorem of Kolmogorov-Arnol’d-Moser, replaces the fixed point, or if Hamiltonian systems are considered. It is pointed out that this paper disproves announcements by V. N. Tkhai.
Reviewer: D.Erle

MSC:

37C75 Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems
37J40 Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol’d diffusion
37J99 Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems
57R50 Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms
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