We consider a discrete dynamical system with internal degrees of freedom
(DOF). Due to the symmetry between the internal DOFs, certain internal modes
cannot be excited by external forcing (in a case of linear interactions) and
thus are considered "hidden". If such a system is weakly asymmetric, the
internal modes remain approximately "hidden" from the external excitation,
given that small damping is taken into account. However, already in the case of
weak cubic nonlinearity, these hidden modes can be excited, even as the exact
symmetry is preserved. This excitation occurs through parametric resonance.
Floquet analysis reveals instability patterns for the explored modes. To
perform this analysis with the required accuracy, we suggest a special method
for obtaining the Fourier series of the unperturbed solution for the nonlinear
normal mode. This method does not require explicit integration of the arising
quadratures. Instead, it employs expansion of the solution at the stage of the
implicit quadrature in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. The emerging implicit
equations are solved by using a fixed-point iteration scheme. Poincar\'{e}
sections help to clarify the correspondence between the loss of stability of
the modes and the global structure of the dynamical flow. In particular, the
conditions for intensive energy exchange in the system are characterized