Upper bounds on Arnold diffusion times via Mather theory

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 105-129

  Bessi, Ugo ^a   Chierchia, Luigi ^a   Valdinoci, Enrico ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arnold diffusion; Hamiltonian systems; Heteroclinic orbits; Instability times; Mather theory; Shadowing orbits; Variational connecting orbits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035218080     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-7824(00)01188-0     Document Type: Article

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