Chaos and the approach to equilibrium in a discrete sine-Gordon equation

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(92)90216-AzbMath0761.58014OpenAlexW2028725998MaRDI QIDQ1207230

M. A. Lieberman, Christopher G. Goedde, Allan J. Lichtenberg

Publication date: 1 April 1993

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(92)90216-a

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic dynamicssine-Gordon equationenergy equipartitionHamiltonian system with many degrees of freedom

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

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