Overview

The fifth International School ~ Mathematical Physics was held at the Ettore Majorana Centro della Culture Scientifica, Erice, Sicily, 2 to 14 July 1983. The present volume collects lecture notes on the session which was devoted to'Regular and Chaotic Motions in Dynamlcal Systems. The School was a NATO Advanced Study Institute sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Public Education, the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research and the Regional Sicilian Government. Many of the fundamental problems of this subject go back to Poincare and have been recognized in recent years as being of basic importance in a variety of physical contexts: stability of orbits in accelerators, and in plasma and galactic dynamics, occurrence of chaotic motions in the excitations of solids, etc. This period of intense interest on the part of physicists followed nearly a half a century of neglect in which research in the subject was almost entirely carried out by mathematicians. It is an in­ dication of the difficulty of some of the problems involved that even after a century we do not have anything like a satisfactory solution.

Full Product Details

Author:   A. S. Wightman
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Volume:   118
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.618kg
ISBN:  

9781468412239

ISBN 10:   146841223
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   30 April 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

to the Problems.- Applications of Scaling Ideas to Dynamics.- to Hyperbolic Sets.- Topics in Conservative Dynamics.- Classical Mechanics and Renormalization Group.- Measures Invariant Under Mappings of the Unit Interval.- Integrable Dynamical Systems.- Appendix (Seminars) Iteration of Polynomials of Degree 2, Iterations of Polynomial-like Mappings.- Boundary of the Stability Domain around the Origin for Chirikov’s Standard Mapping.- Incommensurate Structures in Solid State Physics and Their Connection with Twist Mappings.- Julia Sets — Orthogonal Polynomials Physical Interpretations and Applications.- Scaling Laws in Turbulence.

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions