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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788657503321

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

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.