Creating transverse homoclinic connections in planar billiards

DOI10.1007/S10958-005-0225-9zbMATH Open1120.37040OpenAlexW2004778140MaRDI QIDQ997759FDOQ997759

Authors: Victor J. Donnay 

Publication date: 7 August 2007

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-005-0225-9

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zbMATH Keywords

stable and unstable manifoldslocal perturbationplanar billiard system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariant manifold theory for dynamical systems (37D10) Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K44)

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