Renormalization of isoenergetically degenerate hamiltonian flows and associated bifurcations of invariant tori

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-102

  Gaidashev, Denis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Invariant tori; Isoenergetically degenerate Hamiltonian flows; Renormalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244367382     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2005.13.63     Document Type: Article

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