Orbits of unbounded energy in quasi-periodic perturbations of geodesic flows

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-188

  Delshams, Amadeu ^a   de la Llave, Rafael ^b   Seara, Tere M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arnold diffusion; Geodesic flows; Homoclinic intersections; KAM theory; Melnikov theory; Scattering map

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645884133     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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