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Some recent developments in Arnold diffusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2024

Albert Fathi
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Philip J. Morrison
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
Tere M-Seara
Affiliation:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Sergei Tabachnikov
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

This survey paper grows out of the lecture notes of the nine hour-long lectures that the authors delivered in the special semester on Hamiltonian dynamics at MSRI in the Fall of 2018. It can be considered as an introduction to our work on Arnold diffusion.

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Hamiltonian Systems
Dynamics, Analysis, Applications
, pp. 75 - 110
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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