Soft Billiards with Corners

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 765-813

  Turaev, D ^a   Rom Kedar, V ^b  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bolzmann Hypothesis; Chaos; Hamiltonian systems; Stability islands; Steep potentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037837885     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023884227180     Document Type: Article

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