Selfdual variational principles for periodic solutions of hamiltonian and other dynamical systems

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 771-795

  Ghoussoub, Nassif ^a   Moameni, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian systems; Periodic orbits; Selfduality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249040993     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300600781634     Document Type: Article

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