Geometry
of
the Melnikov Vector
135
where
0
=
(@I,.
. .
,
Od),
w
=
(~1,.
. .
,wd)
and
(2,
a)
E
R”
x
Td.
This is
a
special case of
system
(10.2)
in the sense that the ‘2-dynamics’ of the unperturbed system
of
(10.25)
is globally defined in the normal bundle of
Td.
By using the homoclinic orbit
7,
the
homoclinic orbit
7
of system
(10.25)
to
the torus
Td
is given by
‘i.(t)=(Y(t),wl(t),
wlt+&,...,wdt+od)
where
0,
E
[0,27r),
i
=
1,.
. .
,
d.
This is because the ‘2-dynamics’ and ‘&dynamics’ of
the unperturbed system of
(10.25)
are
completely decoupled. By Theorem
10.1,
we
have the following corollary in this
case.
Corollary
10.2.
The first approximation of the Melnikov vector
&f(&,
. . .
,O,)
=
(kl(81,.
.
.
,ed),
. . .
,
&fm(Ol,.
. .
,&))for system
(10.44)
is
given
J-00
i
=
1,.
. .
,
rn.
Here
{+I,.
. .
,
dm}
is
a
set of linearly independent bounded solutions of
i
+
[Df(r(t))l*+
=
0.
As
a
special case, we shall prove the following proposition for two-dimensional
systems.
See
also Meyer and Sell
[13]
and Wiggins
[20].
Proposition
10.3.
Consider system
(10.24)
with the same assumption
as
before
and let
n
=
2
and
d
2
2.
Then the stable and unstable manifolds of system
(10.24)
intersect transversally if and only if for the first approximation of the Melnikov function
k(01,.
. .
,Od)
defined in
(10.26)
(i
=
1
in this case), there exist
(81,.
. .
,8d)
such that
(10.27)
&f(&,
...,&)
=
0
and
(10.28)