Low dimensional completely resonant tori in Hamiltonian Lattices and a Theorem of Poincaré

We present an extension of a classical result of Poincar\ue9 (1892) about continuation of periodic orbits and breaking of completely resonant tori in a class of nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems, which covers most Hamiltonian Lattice models. The result is based on the fixed point method of the period map and exploits a standard perturbation expansion of the solution with respect to a small parameter. Two different statements are given, about existence and linear stability: a first one, in the so called non-degenerate case, and a second one, in the completely degenerate case. A pair of examples inspired to the existence of localized solutions in the discrete NLS lattice is provided