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G. Gentile

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arXiv1995

Lindstedt series, ultraviolet divergences and Moser's theorem

Moser's invariant tori for a class of nonanalytic quasi integrable even hamiltonian systems are shown to be analytic in the perturbation parameter. We do so by exhibiting a summation rule for the divergent series (``Lindstedt series") that formally define them. We find additional cancellations taking place in the formal series, besides the ones already known and necessary in the analytic case (i.e. to prove convergence of Lindtsedt algorithm for Kolmogorov's invariant tori). The method is interpreted in terms of a non renormalizable quantum field theory, considerably more singular than the one we pointed out in the analytic case.

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arXiv1995

Methods for the analysis of the Lindstedt series for KAM tori and renormalizability in classical mechanics

This paper consists in a unified exposition of methods and techniques of the renormalization group approach to quantum field theory applied to classical mechanics, and in a review of results: (1) a proof of the KAM theorem, by studing the perturbative expansion (Lindstedt series) for the formal solution of the equations of motion; (2) a proof of a conjecture by Gallavotti about the renormalizability of isochronous hamiltonians, i.e. the possibility to add a term depending only on the actions in a hamiltonian function not verifying the anisochrony condition so that the resulting hamiltonian is integrable. Such results were obtained first by Eliasson; however the difficulties arising in the study of the perturbative series are very similar to the problems which one has to deal with in quantum field theory, so that the use the methods which have been envisaged and developed in the last twenty years exactly in order to solve them allows us to obtain unified proofs, both conceptually and technically. In the final part of the review, the original work of Eliasson is analyzed and exposed in detail; its connection with other proofs of the KAM theorem based on his method is elucidated.

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arXiv1993

Field theory and KAM tori

The parametric equations of KAM tori for a quasi integrable system, are shown to be one point Schwinger functions of a suitable euclidean quantum field theory on the torus. KAM theorem is equivalent to a ultraviolet stability theorem. A renormalization group treatment of the field theory leads to a resummation of the formal pertubation series and to an expansion in terms of new parameters (identified as a family of renormalization constants). The new parameters are analytic in the coupling (at small coupling): the breakdown of the tori at large coupling is speculated to be related to the crossing of a "critical" surface at a value where the renormalization constants are still finite. A mechanism for the possible universality of the singularities of parametric equations for the invariant tori, in their parameter dependence as well as in the coupling dependence, is proposed.}

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