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

• Pubblicazione: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2002]; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 521
• Soggetto topico: Celestial mechanics
• Persona (resp. second.): SaariD (Donald); ChencinerAlain
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Celestial mechanics
• ISBN: 0-8218-7882-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825812103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society). ; 292 . 0271-4132