Obstructions to Integrability of Nearly Integrable Dynamical Systems near Regular Level Sets

TL;DR

This paper investigates the obstructions to the existence of real-analytic first integrals in nearly integrable dynamical systems, providing conditions for nonintegrability and illustrating with examples like the forced Duffing oscillator.

Contribution

It offers new sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of real-analytic first integrals in perturbed systems, extending classical results to broader non-Hamiltonian contexts.

Findings

Conditions for nonexistence of real-analytic first integrals

Comparison with classical Poincaré and Kozlov results

Application to periodically forced Duffing oscillator

Abstract

We study the existence of real-analytic first integrals and real-analytic integrability for perturbations of integrable systems in the sense of Bogoyavlenskij including non-Hamiltonian ones. We especially assume that there exists a family of periodic orbits on a regular level set of the first integrals having a connected and compact component and give sufficient conditions for nonexistence of the same number of real-analytic first integrals in the perturbed systems as the unperturbed ones and for their real-analytic nonintegrability near the level set such that the first integrals and commutative vector fields depend analytically on the small parameter. We compare our results with classical results of Poincar\'e and Kozlov for systems written in action and angle coordinates and discuss their relationships with the subharmonic and homoclinic Melnikov methods for periodic perturbations of single-degree-of-freeedom Hamiltonian systems. We illustrate our theory for three examples containing the periodically forced Duffing oscillator.