
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)