Dynamical Systems, Theory and Applications [electronic resource] : Battelle Seattle 1974 Rencontres / edited by J. Moser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moser, J., Editor.

Series:

Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Astrophysics.

Physics.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Physics, general.

Local Subjects:

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Physics, general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 628 p. 1 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 1975.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1975.

Contents:

Time evolution of large classical systems

Ergodic properties of infinite systems

Time evolution and ergodic properties of harmonic systems

The laser: A reversible quantum dynamical system with irreversible classical macroscopic motion

What does it mean for a mechanical system to be isomorphic to the Bernoulli flow?

The Geodesic flow on surfaces of negative curvature

Lectures on the billiard

Spectral invariants and smooth ergodic theory

Nonlinear wave equations

Integrable systems of nonlinear evolution equations

Discrete and periodic illustrations of some aspects of the inverse method

Finitely many mass points on the line under the influence of an exponential potential

an integrable system

On traveling wave solutions of nonlinear diffusion equations

The existence of heteroclinic orbits, and applications

Hadamard's generalization of hyperbolicity, with applications to the hopf bifurcation problem

Hyperbolic sets and shift automorhpisms

Triple collision in Newtonian gravitational systems

Solutions of the collinear four body problem which become unbounded in finite time

On optimal estimates for the solutions of linear partial differential equations of first order with constant coefficients on the torus.

ISBN:

3-540-37505-8