Dual billiards, twist maps and impact oscillators

Nonlinearity

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1411-1438

  Boyland, Philip ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0002098612     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/9/6/002     Document Type: Article

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