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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480620503321

Titolo

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 three others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

0-8218-7882-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 292

Disciplina

521

Soggetti

Celestial mechanics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Spatial central configurations for the 1 + 4 body problem""; ""Analytic estimation of weak stability boundaries and low energy transfers""; ""The complex geometry of the spherical pendulum""; ""Action minimizing periodic orbits in the Newtonian n-body problem""; ""On symmetric periodic orbits of the elliptic Sitnikov problem via the analytic continuation method""; ""Constructing a low energy transfer between Jovian moons""; ""The generalized Sitnikov problem""; ""Reflexions on the future of celestial mechanics""; ""Generic drift on Cantor sets of annuli""

""Action spectrum and collisions in the planar three-body problem""""A variational shadowing method""; ""Symbolic dynamics for transition tori""; ""Dynamical properties of the figure eight solution of the three-body problem""; ""Diffusion in comet motion""; ""The Hill's region of the four-body problem""; ""Some of the problems that Saari did not solve""