Variational approach to homoclinic orbits in twist maps and an application to billiard systems

DOI10.1007/S00033-004-1077-8MaRDI QIDQ701754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jian Cheng

Publication date 16 December 2004

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-004-1077-8

zbMATH Keywords

topological entropyhomoclinic orbitsJacobi fieldstwist mapsbilliard ball systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) Dynamical aspects of twist maps (37E40)

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