On the scenario of reconnection in non-twist cubic maps

In this paper, we study the reconnection process in the dynamics of cubic non-twist maps, introduced in [Howard JE, Humpherys J. Nonmonotonic twist maps. Physica D 1995; 256-76]. In order to describe the route to reconnection of the involved Poincaré-Birkhoff chains we investigate an approximate interpolating Hamiltonian of the map under study. Our study reveals that the scenario of reconnection of cubic non-twist maps is different from that occurring in the dynamics of quadratic non-twist maps.