Resonant covectors in two degrees of freedom #
This file develops the elementary linear-algebra step in Poincaré's nonintegrability argument. At a resonant action, both the unperturbed frequency and the differential of the leading coefficient of a putative first integral annihilate the same nonzero resonance vector. In two dimensions, the two covectors must therefore be linearly dependent.
The two-dimensional action or frequency space used in the planar problem.
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The coordinate dot product on the two-dimensional action space.
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- LeanPool.PoincareThreeBody.dot u v = ∑ i : Fin 2, u i * v i
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The oriented area spanned by two vectors in the action space.
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- LeanPool.PoincareThreeBody.wedge u v = u 0 * v 1 - u 1 * v 0
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Two covectors annihilating the same nonzero vector in dimension two have zero wedge.
Zero wedge is equivalent to failure of linear independence for two vectors in dimension two.
The resonant linear-algebra obstruction in the form used by the perturbative proof.
A nonzero perturbing Fourier mode turns the first homological equation into the second orthogonality relation needed by the resonant obstruction.
A continuous wedge that vanishes on a dense family of resonant actions vanishes everywhere.
Dense resonant obstructions force dependence at every action in the two-dimensional family.