Non-perturbative reducibility of three-dimensional skew symmetric systems without any non-degeneracy condition

Abstract We consider the system $\dot {x}=(A+ P(t,\epsilon )) x, x\in \mathbb {R}^{3}, $ where $A, P$ are both three-dimensional skew symmetric matrices, A is a constant matrix with eigenvalues $\pm i\unicode{x3bb} $ and 0, $P(t,\epsilon )$ is $C^{m}(m=0,1)$ -smooth in $\epsilon $ and analytic quasi-periodic with respect to t with basic frequencies $\omega =(1,\alpha )$ , with $\alpha $ being irrational, and $\epsilon $ is a small parameter. Under some non-resonant conditions about the basic frequencies and the eigenvalues of the constant matrix and without any non-degeneracy condition, it is proved that for many sufficiently small parameters, this system can be reduced to a rotation system. Furthermore, if the basic frequencies satisfy that $ 0\leq \beta (\alpha ) < r,$ where $\beta (\alpha )=\limsup \nolimits _{n\rightarrow \infty } {\ln q_{n+1}}/{q_{n}},$ $q_{n}$ is the sequence of denominations of the best rational approximations for $\alpha \in \mathbb {R} \setminus \mathbb {Q},$ r is the initial radius of analytic domain, it is proved that for many sufficiently small parameters, this system can be reduced to a constant system.