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Horseshoes and Arnold Diffusion for Hamiltonian Systems on Lie Groups
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Computing planar and spherical choreographies
An algorithm is presented for numerical computation of choreographies in the
plane in a Newtonian potential and on the sphere in a cotangent potential. It
is based on stereographic projection, approximation by trigonometric
polynomials, and quasi-Newton and Newton optimization methods with exact
gradient and exact Hessian matrix. New choreographies on the sphere are
presented
Elliptical Galaxy Dynamics
A review of elliptical galaxy dynamics, with a focus on nonintegrable models.
Topics covered include torus construction; modelling axisymmetric galaxies;
triaxiality; collisionless relaxation; and collective instabilities.Comment: 97 Latex pages, 14 Postscript figures, uses aastex. To appear in
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, February 199
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