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Autore |
Zehnder Eduard |
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Lectures on Dynamical Systems [[electronic resource] ] : Hamiltonian Vector Fields and Symplectic Capacities / / Eduard Zehnder |
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Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (363 pages) |
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EMS Textbooks in Mathematics (ETB) |
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Calculus of variations |
Dynamical systems and ergodic theory |
Ordinary differential equations |
Differential geometry |
Mechanics of particles and systems |
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Monografia |
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This book originated from an introductory lecture course on dynamical systems given by the author for advanced students in mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich. The first part centres around unstable and chaotic phenomena caused by the occurrence of homoclinic points. The existence of homoclinic points complicates the orbit structure considerably and gives rise to invariant hyperbolic sets nearby. The orbit structure in such sets is analyzed by means of the shadowing lemma, whose proof is based on the contraction principle. This lemma is also used to prove S. Smale's theorem about the embedding of Bernoulli systems near homoclinic orbits. The chaotic behavior is illustrated in the simple mechanical model of a periodically perturbed mathematical pendulum. The second part of the book is devoted to Hamiltonian systems. The Hamiltonian formalism is developed in the elegant language of the exterior calculus. The theorem of V. Arnold and R. Jost shows that the solutions of Hamiltonian systems which possess sufficiently many integrals of motion can be written down explicitly and for all times. The existence proofs of global periodic orbits of |
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