Big islands in dispersing billiard-like potentials

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00021-4zbMath0956.37028MaRDI QIDQ1809177

Vered Rom-Kedar, Dmitry V. Turaev

Publication date: 30 January 2001

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

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicitynormal formelliptic islandssingular Hamiltonian systemsmixed dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37)

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