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Celestial mechanics : dedicated to Donald Saari for his 60th birthday : proceedings of an international conference on celestial mechanics, December 15-19, 1999, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois / Alain Chenciner ... [and others], editors.

Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QB349 .I58 1999
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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Contributor:
Saari, D. (Donald)
Chenciner, Alain.
Conference Name:
International Conference on Celestial Mechanics (1999 : Northwestern University)
Series:
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 292.
Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 292
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Celestial mechanics--Congresses.
Celestial mechanics.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Physical Description:
x, 270 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Place of Publication:
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, [2002]
Contents:
Spatial central configurations for the 1 + 4 body problem / Alain Albouy, Jaume Llibre 1
Analytic estimation of weak stability boundaries and low energy transfers / Edward Belbruno 17
The complex geometry of the spherical pendulum / Frits Beukers, Richard Cushman 47
Action minimizing periodic orbits in the Newtonian n-body problem / Alain Chenciner 71
On symmetric periodic orbits of the elliptic Sitnikov problem via the analytic continuation method / Montserrat Corbera, Jaume Llibre 91
Constructing a low energy transfer between Jovian moons / Wang Sang Koon, Martin W. Lo, Jerrold E. Marsden, Shane D. Ross 129
The generalized Sitnikov problem / Ernesto Lacomba, Jaume Llibre, Ernesto Perez-Chavela 147
Reflexions on the future of celestial mechanics / C. Marchal 159
Generic drift on Cantor sets of annuli / Richard Moeckel 163
Action spectrum and collisions in the planar three-body problem / Richard Montgomery 173
A variational shadowing method / Paul H. Rabinowitz, Edward W. Stredulinsky 185
Symbolic dynamics for transition tori / Clark Robinson 199
Dynamical properties of the figure eight solution of the three-body problem / Carles Simo 209
Diffusion in comet motion / Yi-Sui Sun, Ji-Lin Zhou, Jia-Qing Zheng, Mauri Valtonen 229
The Hill's region of the four-body problem / Qiudong Wang 239
Some of the problems that Saari did not solve / Zhihong Xia 267.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
0821829025
OCLC:
48449862

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