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Separatrix Splitting and Chaotic Dynamics in Collective-Coordinate Reductions of Driven ϕ4 Kinks

  • Vassilios M Rothos
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Abstract

We investigate the emergence of chaotic dynamics in collective-coordinate reductions of a driven and spatially modulated ϕ4 field describing the motion of topological kinks. Focusing on finite-dimensional effective models, we consider both translation-only and constraint-consistent two--collective--coordinate reductions in the presence of spatial pinning, dissipation, and traveling-wave forcing. Using Melnikov theory, we obtain an explicit analytical characterization of separatrix splitting and derive closed-form criteria for the onset of chaotic dynamics in the reduced phase space. In the two--collective--coordinate framework the Melnikov analysis is formulated in an extended phase space, allowing the distinct roles of translational motion and internal-mode excitation to be identified. Numerical simulations of the reduced systems, including stroboscopic Poincaré sections and Lyapunov exponent computations, confirm the analytical predictions and reveal chaotic layers organized around the unperturbed separatrix.

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@misc{rothos2026separatrix,
  title = {{Separatrix Splitting and Chaotic Dynamics in Collective-Coordinate Reductions of Driven $ϕ^4$ Kinks}},
  author = {Vassilios M Rothos},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.24745},
  eprint = {2605.24745},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24745},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Separatrix Splitting and Chaotic Dynamics in Collective-Coordinate Reductions of Driven ϕ^4 Kinks
AU  - Vassilios M Rothos
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/26
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.24745
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24745
AB  - We investigate the emergence of chaotic dynamics in collective-coordinate reductions of a driven and spatially modulated ϕ^4 field describing the motion of topological kinks. Focusing on finite-dimensional effective models, we consider both translation-only and constraint-consistent two--collective--coordinate reductions in the presence of spatial pinning, dissipation, and traveling-wave forcing. Using Melnikov theory, we obtain an explicit analytical characterization of separatrix splitting and derive closed-form criteria for the onset of chaotic dynamics in the reduced phase space. In the two--collective--coordinate framework the Melnikov analysis is formulated in an extended phase space, allowing the distinct roles of translational motion and internal-mode excitation to be identified. Numerical simulations of the reduced systems, including stroboscopic Poincaré sections and Lyapunov exponent computations, confirm the analytical predictions and reveal chaotic layers organized around the unperturbed separatrix.
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