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Isolated periodic trajectories of Hamiltonian systems
Is there any example of an autonomous Hamiltonian system with a periodic trajectory isolated in the whole phase space? The Poincar\'e map of such a trajectory within its energy level should be very ...
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are there natural examples of classical mechanics that happens on a symplectic manifold that isn't a cotangent bundle?
I'm curious about just how far the abstraction to a symplectic formalism can be justified by appeal to actual physical examples. There's good motivation, for example, for working over an arbitrary ...