Singularities in gravitational systems
Subtitle: applications to chaotic transport in the solar system
By: Daniel Benest, Claude Froeschlé (eds.).
Contributors: Benest, Daniel.; Froeschlé, Claude.
Series: Lecture notes in physics -- 590.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems; Naked singularities (Cosmology); Celestial mechanics
Description: Chaos theory plays an important role in modern physics and related sciences, but -, the most important results so far have been obtained in the study of gravitational systems applied to celestial mechanics. The present set of lectures introduces the mathematical methods used in the theory of singularities in gravitational systems, reviews modeling techniques for the simulation of close encounters and presents the state of the art about the study of diffusion of comets, wandering asteroids, meteors and planetary ring particles. The book will be of use to researchers and graduate students alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.