The physics of chaos in Hamiltonian systems / 2 ed. George M. Zaslavsky.
By: Zaslavsky, George M.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, c2007Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xiv, 315 p., 8 p. of plates : USD 129.00 ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1860947956; 9781860947957 (hbk.).Subject(s): Hamiltonian systems | Chaotic behavior in systems | Mathematical physicsDDC classification: 515/.39 Online resources: Table of contentsItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | Chennai Mathematical Institute General Stacks | 530.15 ZAS (Browse shelf) | Available | 10557 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-311) and index.
Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Discrete and continuous models -- Separatrix chaos -- The phase space of chaos -- Nonlinearity versus perturbation -- Fractals and chaos -- Poincaré recurrences and fractal time -- Chaos and foundation of statistical physics -- Chaos and symmetry -- More degrees of freedom -- Normal and anomalous kinetics -- Fractional kinetics -- Weak chaos and pseudochaos -- The nonlinear pendulum -- Solution to the renormalisation transform equation -- Fractional integro-differentiation -- Formulas of fractional calculus -- References -- Index.