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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Canonical Adiabatic Theory

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In the present chapter we are concerned with systems, the change of which—with the exception of a single degree of freedom—should proceed slowly. (Compare the pertinent remarks about \(\varepsilon\) as slow parameter in Chap. 7) Accordingly, the Hamiltonian reads: $$\displaystyle{ H = H_{0}{\bigl (J,\varepsilon p_{i},\varepsilon q_{i};\varepsilon t\bigr )} +\varepsilon H_{1}{\bigl (J,\theta,\varepsilon p_{i},\varepsilon q_{i};\varepsilon t\bigr )}\;. }$$ (12.1) Here, \((J,\theta )\) designates the “fast” action-angle variables for the unperturbed, solved problem \(H_{0}(\varepsilon = 0),\) and the (p i , q i ) represent the remaining “slow” canonical variables, which do not necessarily have to be action-angle variables. Naturally, we again wish to eliminate the fast variable \(\theta\) in (12.1).