Complex Hamiltonian dynamics
By: Tassos Bountis, Haris Skokos ; with a foreword by Sergej Flach
Contributors: Skokos, Haris
Series: Springer series in synergetics -- 10; Springer complexity; Springer series in synergetics (Unnumbered); Springer complexity
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9783642273049; 9783642273056
Subjects: Hamiltonian systems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2, Hamiltonian systems of few degrees of freedom; title: 3. Local and global stability of motion; title: 4. Normal modes, symmetries and stability; title: 5. Efficient indicators of ordered and chaotic motion; title: 6. FPU recurrences and the transition from weak to strong chaos; title: 7. Localization and diffusion in nonlinear one-dimensional lattices; title: 8. The statistical mechanics of quasi-stationary states; title: 9. Conclusions, open problems and future outlook.