Geometry of hamiltonian chaos

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Horwitz, Lawrence ^a,b,c   Zion, Yossi Ben ^a,c   Lewkowicz, Meir ^a   Schiffer, Marcelo ^a   Levitan, Jacob ^a,d  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; HAMILTONIANS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GEODESIC DEVIATION; GEODESIC EQUATIONS; HAMILTON EQUATIONS; RIEMANNIAN METRIC TENSORS;

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547366592     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.234301     Document Type: Article

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