We consider a two degree of freedom Hamiltonian system with one degree of freedom corresponding to fast motion and the other corresponding to slow motion. We assume that at frozen values of the slow variables there is a separatrix on the phase plane of the fast variables and there is a region in the phase space (the domain of separatrix crossings) where projections of phase points onto the plane of the fast variables repeatedly cross the separatrix in the process of evolution of the slow variables. Under rather general conditions, we prove that there are no stable periodic trajectories of any prescribed period inside the domain of separatrix crossings, except maybe for periodic trajectories passing anomalously close to the saddle point.
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