Cicogna / Gaeta Symmetry and Perturbation Theory in Nonlinear Dynamics

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-3-540-48874-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 57, 212 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs

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Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cicogna, Giampaolo

Gaeta, Guiseppe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Symmetry and Differential Equations.- Dynamical Systems.- Symmetries of Dynamical Systems.- Normal Forms and Symmetries for Dynamical Systems.- Normal Forms and Symmetries for Hamiltonian Systems.- Convergence of the Normalizing Transformations.- Invariant Manifolds.- Further Normalization.- Asymptotic Symmetries.