Uniform semiclassical approximations for umbilic bifurcation catastrophes

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  • 9 September 1997
Abstract
Gutzwiller's trace formula for the semiclassical density of states diverges at the bifurcation points of periodic orbits and has to be replaced with uniform semiclassical approximations. We present a method to derive these expressions from the standard representations of the elementary catastrophes and to directly relate the uniform solutions to classical periodic orbit parameters. The method is simple even for ungeneric bifurcations with corank 2 such as the umbilic catastrophes. We demonstrate the technique on a hyperbolic umbilic in the diamagnetic Kepler problem.

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