Publication

1994 - Springer-Verlag, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

48,250 words, Guess

Page Count

193 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number94008078
  • Goodreads916978
  • LibraryThing369698

Classifications

  • DDC510 s
  • LCCQA1 .A647 vol. 105
  • LCCQA614.8 .A647 vol. 105

Description

In the past ten years, there has been much progress in understanding the global dynamics of systems with several degrees-of-freedom. An important tool in these studies has been the theory of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds and foliations of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. In recent years these techniques have been used for the development of global perturbation methods, the study of resonance phenomena in coupled oscillators, geometric singular perturbation theory, and the study of bursting phenomena in biological oscillators. "Invariant manifold theorems" have become standard tools for applied mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and virtually anyone working on nonlinear problems from a geometric viewpoint. In this book, the author gives a self-contained development of these ideas as well as proofs of the main theorems along the lines of the seminal works of Fenichel. In general, the Fenichel theory is very valuable for many applications, but it is not easy for people to get into from existing literature. This book provides an excellent avenue to that. Wiggins also describes a variety of settings where these techniques can be used in applications.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Applied mathematical sciences ;

Other Editions

  • Normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds in dynamical systemsSpringer-Verlag1994-01-01

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