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Geography of Order and Chaos in Mechanics

Investigations of Quasi-Integrable Systems with Analytical, Numerical, and Graphical Tools

Birkhäuser

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  • Offers a unique approach to the dynamics of quasi-integrable Hamiltonian systems
  • Provides a rare opportunity for readers to experiment with and fully conceptualize recent numerical tools via customized MATLAB applications
  • Gives a rigorous but clean and uncluttered presentation of perturbaton theory, including clear proofs of the KAM and Nekhoroshev theorems
  • Fully describes new, sophisticated techniques for reducing two paradigmatic problems the field to normal forms?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 64)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introductory Survey

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 1-16
  3. Perturbation Theory

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 83-130
  4. Numerical Tools I: ODE Integration

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 131-146
  5. The Kepler Problem

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 175-209
  6. The KEPLER Program

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 211-227
  7. Some Perturbed Keplerian Systems

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 229-264
  8. The Multi-Body Gravitational Problem

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 265-304
  9. Final Remarks and Perspectives

    • Bruno Cordani
    Pages 305-308
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 309-332

About this book

This original monograph aims to explore the dynamics in the particular but very important and significant case of quasi-integrable Hamiltonian systems, or integrable systems slightly perturbed by other forces. With both analytic and numerical methods, the book studies several of these systems—including for example the hydrogen atom or the solar system, with the associated Arnold web—through modern tools such as the frequency modified fourier transform, wavelets, and the frequency modulation indicator. Meanwhile, it draws heavily on the more standard KAM and Nekhoroshev theorems.

Geography of Order and Chaos in Mechanics will be a valuable resource for professional researchers and certain advanced undergraduate students in mathematics and physics, but mostly will be an exceptional reference for Ph.D. students with an interest in perturbation theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi, Soresina (CR), Italy

    Bruno Cordani

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