Geometry and guiding center motion

DOI10.1090/conm/028/751980zbMath0543.58016OpenAlexW2776486804MaRDI QIDQ3331957

Robert G. Littlejohn

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Fluids and Plasmas: Geometry and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0s50v8dz

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryvariational principlesymplectic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) Motion of charged particles (78A35)

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