Variational Construction of Homoclinics and Chaos in Presence of a Saddle-Saddle Equilibrium

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 331-377

  Berti, Massimiliano ^a   Bolle, Philippe ^b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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