Numerical study of a billiard in a gravitational field

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(86)90080-1zbMath0607.70011MaRDI QIDQ1085641

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

two degrees of freedom; expansion; Hamiltonian systems; phase space; discontinuity; Lyapunov numbers; Billiards; chaotic regions; K-system behavior; near-integrable regions; one-dimensional self-gravitating system; symmetric wedge; wedge vertex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70F07: Three-body problems

70K50: Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics

70-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems

70F35: Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies

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