Hamiltonian formulation and statistics of an attracting system of nonlinear oscillators

An attracting system of r nonlinear oscillators of an extended van der Pol type was investigated with respect to Hamiltonian formulation. The case of r=2 is rather simple, though nontrivial. For r>2 the tests with Jacobi's identity and Frechet derivatives are negative if Hamiltonians in the natural variables are looked for. Independently, a Liouville theorem is proved and equilibrium statistics is made possible, which leads to a Gaussian distribution in the natural variables. (orig.)