DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM 

2/19/2003

John Mather
Princeton University

Arnold's Diffusion 

Abstract

For a small perturbation of an integrable convex Hamiltonian system in two and a half or three degrees of freedom, there exist orbits that that wander over most of phase space.  In this talk, I will provide a precise statement of this result and provide a very brief indication of the methods of proof.  I will also briefly discuss related results.