Resonance tongues in the quasi-periodic Hill-Schrödinger equation with three frequencies

Regular and Chaotic Dynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-78

  Puig, Joaquim ^a   Simó, Carles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lyapunov exponent; numerical explorations; quasi periodic cocycles and skew products; quasi periodic Schr dinger operators; resonance tongues; rotation number; spectral gaps

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952026919     PISSN: 15603547     EISSN: 14684845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1560354710520047     Document Type: Article

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