Hamiltonian Systems And Celestial Mechanics

This volume puts together several important lectures on the Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics to form a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on the subject. The papers presented in this volume are an outgrowth of the lectures that took place during the 'International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics', which was held at the CIMAT (Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, Guanajuato, Mexico) from September 30 to October 4, 1991. In general, the lectures explored the subject of the Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics and emphasized its relationship with several aspects of topology, mechanics and dynamical systems.

This volume puts together several important lectures on the Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics to form a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on the subject. Their relationship to several aspects of topology, mechanics and dynamical systems in general are also emphasized. The papers presented are an outgrowth of the lectures that took place during the “International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics ”, which was held at Cocoyoc (Morelos, México) from September 13 to 17, 1994.

This volume is an outgrowth of the Third International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics. The main topics are Arnold diffusion, central configurations, singularities in few-body problems, billiards, area-preserving maps, and geometrical mechanics. All papers in the volume went through the refereeing process typical of a mathematical research journal. Contents:The Rhomboidal Charged Four Body Problem (F Alfaro & E Pérez-Chavela)Planetary Rings with Shepherds (L Benet & T H Seligman)Low Reynolds Number Swimming in Two Dimensions (A Cherman et al.)2-Dimensional Invariant Tori for the Spatial Isosceles 3-Body Problem (M Corbera & J Llibre)The Global Flow for the Synodical Spatial Kepler Problem (M P Dantas & J Llibre)Unbounded Growth of Energy in Periodic Perturbations of Geodesic Flows of the Torus (A Delshams et al.)Splitting and Melnikov Potentials in Hamiltonian Systems (A Delshams & P Gutiérrez)Infinity Manifolds of Cubic Polynomial Hamiltonian Vector Fields with 2 Degrees of Freedom (M Falconi et al.)Relativistic Corrections to Elementary Galilean Dynamics and Deformations of Poisson Brackets (R Flores-Espinoza & Y M Vorobjev)Heteroclinic Phenomena in the Sitnikov Problem (A García & E Pérez-Chavela)Doubly-Symmetric Periodic Solutions of Hill's Lunar Problem (R C Howison & K R Meyer)On Practical Stability Regions for the Motion of a Small Particle Close to the Equilateral Points of the Real Earth-Moon System (À Jorba)Variational Methods for Quasi-Periodic Solutions of Partial Differential Equations (R de la Llave)The Splitting of Invariant Lagrangian Submanifolds: Geometry and Dynamics (J-P Marco)Cross-Sections in the Planar N-Body Problem (C McCord)Existence of an Additional First Integral and Completeness of the Flow for Hamiltonian Vector Fields (J Muciño-Raymundo)Simplification of Perturbed Hamiltonians Through Lie Transformations (J Palacián & P Yanguas)Linear Stability in the 1 + N-Gon Relative Equilibrium (G E Roberts)Analytic Continuation of Circular and Elliptic Kepler Motion to the General 3-Body Problem (J Soler)The Phase Space of Finite Systems (K B Wolf et al.) Readership: Students and researchers in mathematics and nonlinear dynamics. Keywords:Charged Four Body Problem;Low Reynolds Number;Relativistic Corrections;Sitnikov Problem;Hill's Lunar Problem;Invariant Lagrangian Submanifolds;Planar N-Body Problem;Elliptic Kepler Motion

This book contains selected papers from the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics held in Seattle in June 1995. The symbiotic relationship of these two topics creates a natural combination for a conference on dynamics. The topics covered include twist maps, the Aubrey-Mather theory, Arnold diffusion, qualitative and topological studies of systems, and variational methods, as well as specific topics such as Melnikov's procedure and the singularity properties of particular systems. As one of the few books that addresses both Hamiltonian systems and celestial mechanics, this volume offers emphasis on new issues and unsolved problems. Many of the papers give new results, yet the editors purposely included some exploratory papers based on numerical computations, a section on unsolved problems, and papers that pose conjectures while developing what is known. It features open research problems, and papers on central configurations.

The aim of the IV International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, HAMSYS-2001 was to join top researchers in the area of Celestial Mechanics, Hamiltonian systems and related topics in order to communicate new results and look forward for join research projects. For PhD students, this meeting offered also the opportunity of personal contact to help themselves in their own research, to call as well and promote the attention of young researchers and graduated students from our scientific community to the above topics, which are nowadays of interest and relevance in Celestial Mechanics and Hamiltonian dynamics. A glance to the achievements in the area in the last century came as a consequence of joint discussions in the workshop sessions, new problems were presented and lines of future research were delineated. Specific discussion topics included: New periodic orbits and choreographies in the n-body problem, singularities in few body problems, central configurations, restricted three body problem, geometrical mechanics, dynamics of charged problems, area preserving maps and Arnold diffusion.

This volume is an outgrowth of the Third International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics. The main topics are Arnold diffusion, central configurations, singularities in few-body problems, billiards, area-preserving maps, and geometrical mechanics. All papers in the volume went through the refereeing process typical of a mathematical research journal.

This third edition text provides expanded material on the restricted three body problem and celestial mechanics. With each chapter containing new content, readers are provided with new material on reduction, orbifolds, and the regularization of the Kepler problem, all of which are provided with applications. The previous editions grew out of graduate level courses in mathematics, engineering, and physics given at several different universities. The courses took students who had some background in differential equations and lead them through a systematic grounding in the theory of Hamiltonian mechanics from a dynamical systems point of view. This text provides a mathematical structure of celestial mechanics ideal for beginners, and will be useful to graduate students and researchers alike. Reviews of the second edition: "The primary subject here is the basic theory of Hamiltonian differential equations studied from the perspective of differential dynamical systems. The N-body problem is used as the primary example of a Hamiltonian system, a touchstone for the theory as the authors develop it. This book is intended to support a first course at the graduate level for mathematics and engineering students. ... It is a well-organized and accessible introduction to the subject ... . This is an attractive book ... ." (William J. Satzer, The Mathematical Association of America, March, 2009) “The second edition of this text infuses new mathematical substance and relevance into an already modern classic ... and is sure to excite future generations of readers. ... This outstanding book can be used not only as an introductory course at the graduate level in mathematics, but also as course material for engineering graduate students. ... it is an elegant and invaluable reference for mathematicians and scientists with an interest in classical and celestial mechanics, astrodynamics, physics, biology, and related fields.” (Marian Gidea, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2010 d)