Stability of Levitrons

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 1-17

  Dullin, Holger R ^a   Easton, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcations; Levitron; Relative equilibria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040625924     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00251-6     Document Type: Article

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