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2505.04547

Birkhoff normal form via decorated trees

Jacob Armstrong-Goodall, Yvain Bruned

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Category
math.DS
Journal tier
Specialist/Solid
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Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM

Audit review

The paper’s Theorem 4.3 states an explicit decorated-tree formula for the Birkhoff normal form and constructs the generators Fi; its proof proceeds by induction, using a tree-based Taylor/Lie expansion and a collecting identity for nested Poisson brackets. The candidate solution reproduces the same structure: bookkeeping of sizes |T|, the phase-division identity that yields {H0,Fi} cancellation of non-resonant parts, the tree-collecting identity via S(T), a base case, and the inductive step that enforces the ‘forbidden n-node’ constraint in T^{\circ}_{m+2,\ell}. Aside from minor differences in emphasis (Lie-transform notation vs. composition) and a few implicit assumptions (e.g., when the root decoration changes from n to \circ the coefficients match as per the paper’s S-recursion), the arguments agree in substance with the paper’s proof.

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\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid

\textbf{Justification:}

The paper presents a clear, explicit decorated-tree framework for Birkhoff normal forms up to arbitrary order, with a rigorous inductive proof grounded in a precise collecting identity for iterated Poisson brackets. The contribution is technically solid and of interest to specialists in Hamiltonian PDEs and algebraic Lie expansions. Minor additions would improve accessibility: a few steps currently summarized as obvious deserve short lemmas or examples, especially concerning coefficient recursion at the root and the mapping between n- and \circ-rooted trees under the homological operator.