Autonomous form

Equation (3.5) is called the state equation since it describes the state of the system through the state variable y as a function of the independent variable t. It is assumed that F and g have continuous partial derivatives with respect to y and u. Note that this problem is autonomous in the sense that the independent variable does not appear explicitly in F or y. When it does, the problem is easily convertible to the autonomous form (see Exercise 3.4). 

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A non autonomous differential equation x = f t,x) can be written in autonomous form where the right hand side of the differential equation is not explicitly depending on time, by augmenting the system by the trivial equation t = 1 ... 

In other words, at p = 0, the right-hand side of Eq. (12.2.7) can be made independent on p (by an appropriate change of variables), so it assumes the following autonomous form... 

Once we fix coordinates such that the system on the center manifold is in the autonomous form (12.2.12) at /i = 0, we can then define the essential map... 

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In the case of autonomous problems and in the first approximation, the system (6-29) is often reducible to the form... 

The use of this theory in studies of nonlinear oscillations was suggested in 1929 (by Andronov). At a later date (1937) Krylov and Bogoliubov (K.B.) simplified somewhat the method of attack by a device resembling Lagrange s method of the variation of parameters, and in this form the method became useful for solving practical problems. Most of these early applications were to autonomous systems (mainly the self-excited oscillations), but later the method was extended to... 

Autonomous (A) Versus Nonautonomous (NA) Problems. Practically all nonlinear problems of the theory of oscillations reduce to the differential equation of the form... 

Remark.—There is one difficulty worth mentioning. In taking the solution of the form x(t) = x0(t) + fixx(t) + for autonomous systems, one encounters a complication arising from the... 

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Because in an autonomous system many of the invariant manifolds that are found in the linear approximation do not remain intact in the presence of nonlinearities, one should expect the same in the time-dependent case. In particular, the separation of the bath modes will not persist but will give way to irregular dynamics within the center manifold. At the same time, one can hope to separate the reactive mode from the bath modes and in this way to find the recrossing-free dividing surfaces and the separatrices that are of importance to TST. As was shown in Ref. 40, this separation can indeed be achieved through a generalization of the normal form procedure that was used earlier to treat autonomous systems [34]. 

The scaling prescription (59) embodies the assumption that the external force is so weak that it does not drive the TS trajectory out of the phase-space region in which the normal form expansion is valid. In the autonomous version of geometric TST, one generally assumes that this region is sufficiently large to make the normal form expansion a useful tool for the computation of the geometric objects. Once this assumption has been made, the additional condition imposed by Eq. (59) is only a weak constraint. 

We can therefore revert from the formally autonomous description in the extended phase space to an explicitly time-dependent dynamics in the original phase space with a time-dependent normal form Hamiltonian... 

Figure 8 displays the escape actions thus obtained for trajectories that react into channel A or B. It confirms, first of all, that all escape actions are positive. Furthermore, they take a maximum in the interior of each reactive island and decrease to zero as the boundaries of the islands are approached. These boundaries therefore coincide with the invariant manifolds that are characterized by 1 = 0. A more detailed study of the island structure [40] reveals in addition that the time-dependent normal form approach is necessary to describe the islands correctly. Neither the harmonic approximation of Section IVB1 nor the earlier autonomous TST described in Section II yield the correct island boundaries. 

For time-dependent Hamiltonian systems we chose in Section IVB to use a normal form that decouples the reactive mode from the bath modes, but does not attempt a decoupling of the bath modes. This procedure is always safe, but in many cases it will be overly cautious. If it is relaxed, the dynamics within the center manifold is also transformed into a (suitably defined) normal form. This opens the possibility to study the dynamics within the TS itself, as has been done in the autonomous case, for example in Ref. 107. One can then try to identify structures in the TS that promote or inhibit the transport from the reactant to the product side. 

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