Nonintegrability of time-periodic perturbations of single-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems near homo- and heteroclinic orbits

Abstract

We consider time-periodic perturbations of single-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems and study their real-meromorphic nonintegrability in the Bogoyavlenskij sense using a generalized version due to Ayoul and Zung of the Morales-Ramis theory. The perturbation terms are assumed to have finite Fourier series in time, and the perturbed systems are rewritten as higher-dimensional autonomous systems having the small parameter as a state variable.We show that if the Melnikov functions are not constant, then the autonomous systems are not real-meromorphically integrable near homo- and heteroclinic orbits. Our result is not just an extension of previous results for homocliic orbits to heteroclinic orbits and provides a stronger conclusion than them for the case of homoclinic orbits. We illustrate the theory for two periodically forced Duffing oscillators and a periodically forced two-dimensional system.