Simplified normal forms near a degenerate elliptic fixed point in two-parametric families of area-preserving maps

Vassili Gelfreich, Natalia Gelfreikh

Published 2013-12-20Version 1

We derive simplified normal forms for an area-preserving map in a neighbourhood of a degenerate resonant elliptic fixed point. Such fixed points appear in generic two-parameter families of area-preserving maps. We also derive a simplified normal form for a generic two-parametric unfolding. The normal forms are used to analyse bifurcations of $n$-periodic orbits. In particular, for $n\ge6$ we find regions of parameters where the normal form has "meandering'' invariant curves.