Amadeu Delshams, Marina Gonchenko, Pere Guti rrez Continuation of the exponentially small transversality for the splitting of separatrices to a whiskered torus with silver ratio (668K, pdf) ABSTRACT. We study the exponentially small splitting of invariant manifolds of whiskered (hyperbolic) tori with two fast frequencies in nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems whose hyperbolic part is given by a pendulum. We consider a torus whose frequency ratio is the silver number $\Omega=\sqrt{2}-1$. We show that the Poincar\'e--Melnikov method can be applied to establish the existence of 4 transverse homoclinic orbits to the whiskered torus, and provide asymptotic estimates for the tranversality of the splitting whose dependence on the perturbation parameter $ arepsilon$ satisfies a periodicity property. We also prove the continuation of the transversality of the homoclinic orbits for all the sufficiently small values of~$ arepsilon$, generalizing the results previously known for the golden number.