Relative Equilibria of a 4–Particle Ring Close to the 1 : 2 : 4 Resonance
摘要
A 4–particle ring with different masses in nearest-neighbour interaction generalizes the spatially periodic Fermi–Pasta–Ulam chain where all masses are equal. For appropriate mass ratios the system is in 1 : 2 : 4 resonance and the 4–particle ring provides for a versal detuning of the 1 : 2 : 4 resonance. The normal form of the system is not integrable, but can be reduced to two degrees of freedom. We determine the relative equilibria and how these behave under detuning.
The reduced phase space consists of a singular part in one degree of freedom and a regular part in two degrees of freedom. On the latter the normal form of the 4–particle ring has at most 4 relative equilibria as these are given by the roots of a single quartic polynomial