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Volume 62

Number 2, April 2007

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE MOSCOW MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

MATHEMATICAL LIFE

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The separatrix map is constructed for some classes of problems in Hamiltonian dynamics. The formulae obtained are used to study two-dimensional symplectic maps close to integrable maps: elliptic periodic trajectories passing through separatrix lobes are constructed, and some estimates for the width of the stochastic layer are given. For Hamiltonian systems with two and a half degrees of freedom it is proved that the Arnol'd diffusion in the a priori unstable case is generic, and in the Mather problem trajectories are constructed for which the mean energy growth is linear in time.

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In this survey article two new classes of spaces are considered: --spaces and ---spaces, . They are intermediate between the class of weakly infinite-dimensional spaces in the Alexandroff sense and the class of -spaces. The classes of --spaces and ---spaces coincide with the class of weakly infinite-dimensional spaces, while the compact --spaces are exactly the -compact spaces of Haver. The main results of the theory of weakly infinite-dimensional spaces, including classification via transfinite Lebesgue dimensions and Luzin-Sierpińsky indices, extend to these new classes of spaces. Weak --spaces are characterised by means of essential maps to Henderson's -compacta. The existence of hereditarily -strongly infinite-dimensional spaces is proved.