Abstract
Integrable dynamical systems play an important role in many areas of science, including accelerator and plasma physics. An integrable dynamical system with degrees of freedom possesses nontrivial integrals of motion, and can be solved, in principle, by covering the phase space with one or more charts in which the dynamics can be described using action-angle coordinates. To obtain the frequencies of motion, both the transformation to action-angle coordinates and its inverse must be known in explicit form. However, no general algorithm exists for constructing this transformation explicitly from a set of known (and generally coupled) integrals of motion. In this paper we describe how one can determine the dynamical frequencies of the motion as functions of these integrals in the absence of explicitly known action-angle variables, and we provide several examples.
- Received 15 March 2021
- Accepted 2 June 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.062216
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