Symplectic Twist Maps: Global Variational Techniques (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810205898)

This book concentrates mainly on the theorem of existence of periodic orbits for higher dimensional analogs of Twist maps. The setting is that of a discrete variational calculus and the techniques involve Conley-Zehnder-Morse Theory. They give rise to the concept of ghost tori which are of interest in the dimension 2 case (ghost circles). The debate is oriented somewhat toward the open problem of finding orbits of all (in particular, irrational) rotation vectors.

Author: Christophe Gole
ISBN-10: 9810205899
ISBN-13: 9789810205898
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2001
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.10w x 0.90d