General disagreement between the Geometrical Description of Dynamical In-stability -using non affine parameterizations- and traditional Tangent Dynamics

Abstract

In this paper, the general disagreement of the geometrical lyapunov exponent with lyapunov exponent from tangent dynamics is addressed. It is shown in a quite general way that the vector field of geodesic spread $\xi^k_G$ is not equivalent to the tangent dynamics vector $\xi^k_T$ if the parameterization is not affine and that results regarding dynamical stability obtained in the geometrical framework can differ qualitatively from those in the tangent dynamics. It is also proved in a general way that in the case of Jacobi metric -frequently used non affine parameterization-, $\xi^k_G$ satisfies differential equations which differ from the equations of the tangent dynamics in terms that produce parametric resonance, therefore, positive exponents for systems in stable regimes.