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Title

Ergodic concepts in stellar dynamics : proceeedings of an international workshop held at Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1-3 March 1993 / V.G. Gurzadyan, D. Pfenniger (eds.).

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Gurzadyan, V. G., 1955-
• Pfenniger, D.
• Workshop on Ergodic Concepts in Stellar Dynamics (1993 : Geneva Observatory, Switzerland)

Description

xvi, 302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Lecture notes in physics ; 430

Uniform Title

Lecture notes in physics ; 430.

Subject

• Stellar dynamics > Congresses
• Ergodic theory > Congresses
• Chaotic behavior in systems > Congresses

Note

• Title on added t.p.: Workshop on Ergodic Concepts in Stellar Dynamics, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland, 1-3 March 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Foreword / A. Maeder -- Structural and Dynamical Forms of Elliptical and Dwarf Galaxies / S. Djorgovski -- Some Clues About the Dynamics of Globular Clusters from High-Resolution Observations / G. Meylan -- Diffusion of Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Disk / B. Fuchs, C. Dettbarn and R. Wielen -- Ergodic Methods in Stellar Dynamics / V. G. Gurzadyan -- On a Notion of Weak Stability and Its Relevance for Celestial Mechanics and Molecular Dynamics / L. Galgani and A. Giorgilli -- Recent Developments in the Dynamics of Nonlinear Hamiltonian Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom / M. Pettini -- Numerical Exploration of the Circular Billiard with Gravity / A. Hayli and A. Vidovic -- Ergodicity and Mixing in Gravitating Systems / V. A. Antonov and L. P. Ossipkov -- Chaotic Itineracy and Clustered Motion in Globally Coupled Symplectic Map System / T. Konishi and K. Kaneko -- Lyapunov Analysis of Stable Chaos in Self-Gravitating Systems / N. Gouda, T. Tsuchiya and T. Konishi.
• Stability of the Modified Konishi-Kaneko System / S. Inagaki -- Mixing Transformations of N Particles Conserving Almost All Classical Integrals / D. Pfenniger -- Symplectic Integration Without Roundoff Error / D. J. D. Earn -- Discreteness Noise Versus Force Errors in N-Body Simulations / J. Makino -- Core Motions and Global Chaotic Oscillations / R. H. Miller -- N-Body Systems: Computer Image and Reality / V. G. Gurzadyan and A. A. Kocharyan -- The Approach to Integrability in N-Body Systems with a Central Point Mass / H. Smith, Jr., H. E. Kandrup, M. E. Mahon and C. Siopis -- On the Non-Trivial Concept of Relaxation in N-body Systems / P. Cipriani and G. Pucacco -- Gravothermal Oscillations / R. Spurzem -- Recent Results on the Stability of Anisotropic Stellar Systems / J. Perez and J.-J. Aly -- The Stability of the Solar System / J. Laskar -- The One-Dimensional Three-Body Problem: Numerical Simulations / J. L. Rouet, R. Dufour and M. R. Feix.
• Order and Chaos in "Collisionless" Numerical Simulations / D. Pfenniger -- On the Permissible Percentage of Chaotic Orbits in Various Morphological Types of Galaxies / L. Martinet -- Minimum Energy States of a Self-Gravitating System / J.-J. Aly -- Effective Collision Term Induced by Coarse-Graining / T. Tsuchiya -- Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of the Stability of Flattened Galaxies / E. Griv and W. Peter -- The Evolution of Orbits in the Stellar Disk as a Purely Discontinuous Random Process / I. V. Petrovskaya -- Interacting Spherical Stellar Systems / J. C. Muzzio -- How Faithful Are N-Body Simulations of Disc Galaxies? - Artificial Suppression of Stellar Dynamical Instabilities / A. B. Romeo -- SPH Simulations of the Gas Flow in Normal Spiral Galaxies / P. A. Patsis and N. Hiotelis -- Regular Orbits and Cantori in the Potential of the Barred Galaxy NGC 936 / H. Wozniak.
• The Role of Stochastic Motion in a Central Field with a Bar-Like Perturbation / J. A. Nunez, P. M. Cincotta and J. C. Muzzio -- A Hierarchical Model of Patchy-Structured Galaxies and Evolutionary Processes / E. M. Nezhinskij and A. Ollongren -- Evolution of Clusters of Galaxies / Y. Funato, J. Makino and T. Ebisuzaki -- Smoothing of the Cosmic Background Radiation by Multiple Gravitational Scattering / J. Makino -- Angular Momentum of Galaxies Within the Local Supercluster / W. Godlowski -- 10 Key Problems / V. G. Gurzadyan -- Comments on "10 Key Problems" / R. H. Miller, A. Hayli, L. Martinet, Y. Pesin, J. C. Muzzio, S. Inagaki, D. Pfenniger and G. S. Djorgovski.

ISBN

• 354057929X (Berlin : acid-free paper) :
• 038757929X (New York : acid-free paper) :

LCCN

94014204

OCLC

• 30318770
• ocm30318770

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries