The problem of two fixed centers: Bifurcations, actions, monodromy

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 196, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 265-310

  Waalkens, Holger ^a,b   Dullin, Holger R ^a,c   Richter, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action variables; Integrable systems; Monodromy; Two center problem

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM THEORY; TOPOLOGY;

ACTION VARIABLES; INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS; MONODROMY; TWO-CENTER PROBLEM;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 4344650952     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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