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The extra degree of freedom for trajectories in a 3-torus means that quite arbitrary perturbations will break the perfect 3-frequency quasi-periodicity!

•  imagine cutting and straightening a limit cycle



so that the system continuously traverses the line segment---when it reaches the end it then continues from the beginning.  This is equivalent to the cycle.