Numerical study of a billiard in a gravitational field

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(86)90080-1zbMATH0607.70011OpenAlexW2014887940MaRDI QIDQ1085641FDOQ1085641

Authors H. E. Lehtihet, Bruce N. Miller

Publication date 1986

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(86)90080-1

zbMATH Keywords

expansionHamiltonian systemsdiscontinuityphase spacetwo degrees of freedomBilliardsLyapunov numberschaotic regionsK-system behaviornear-integrable regionsone-dimensional self-gravitating systemsymmetric wedgewedge vertex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-body problems (70F07) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35)

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