Arnold diffusion in a neighborhood of strong resonances

Abstract

The paper deals with nearly integrable multidimensional a priori unstable Hamiltonian systems. Assuming the Hamilton function is smooth and time-periodic, we study perturbations that are trigonometric polynomials in the “angle” variables in the first approximation. For a generic system in this class, we construct a trajectory whose projection on the space of slow variables crosses a small neighborhood of a strong resonance. We also estimate the speed of this crossing.