A nonintegrability test for perturbed separable planar Hamiltonians

Efi Meletlidou
Department of Physics - University of Thessaloniki, Greece


We prove the non-integrability of perturbed separable planar potentials by using the perturbed normal variational equations, with a reasoning analogous to Ziglin's theorem. We apply the above criterion to a Hamiltonian that cannot be proved non-integrable by other known non-integrability criteria.

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