Chapter 14 Variational methods for hamiltonian systems

Handbook of Dynamical Systems

Volumn 1, Issue PART A, 2002, Pages 1091-1127

  Rabinowitz, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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