Orbital divergence and relaxation in the gravitational N-body problem

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 1017-1025

  Hut, P ^a   Heggie, D C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Few body systems; Gravity; Particle orbits; Relaxation processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036390651     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020472526203     Document Type: Article

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