Topological methods in the instability problem of Hamiltonian systems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 295-328

  Gidea, Marian ^a   De La Llave, Rafael ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arnol'd diffusion; Correctly aligned windows; Instability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644518721     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2006.14.295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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