Bagrets A. A., Bagrets D. A.
Department of Physics, Udmurt State University, 71 Krasnogeroiskaya St., 426034 Izhevsk, Russia.
Chaos. 1997 Sep;7(3):368-375. doi: 10.1063/1.166210.
An analysis is presented of two problems in vortex dynamics whose equations can be written in the Hamiltonian form. They are: the interaction of three coaxial vortex rings and the motion of four point vortices on a sphere. The nonintegrability of these problems in the restricted formulation is demonstrated analytically by the method of split separatrices, using a small parameter. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.