Existence of exponentially small separatrix splittings and homoclinic connections between whiskered tori in weakly hyperbolic near-integrable Hamiltonian systems

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 3-80

  Rudnev, Michael ^a,b   Wiggins, Stephen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

A priori stable systems; Arnold's diffusion; Exponentially small splitting of separatrices; KAM theory; Melnikov's method; Nekoroshev theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002682326     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00173-5     Document Type: Article

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