Author | Gutzwiller, Martin C. author |
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Title | Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics [electronic resource] / by Martin C. Gutzwiller |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1990 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0983-6 |
Descript | XIV, 432 p. online resource |
Contents: Introduction -- The Mechanics of Lagrange -- The Mechanics of Hamilton and Jacobi -- Integrable Systems -- The Three-Body Problem: Moon-Earth-Sun -- Three Methods of Section -- Periodic Orbits -- The Surface of Solution -- Models of the Galaxy and of Small Molecules -- Soft Chaos and the KAM Theorem -- Entropy and Other Measures of Chaos -- The Anisotropic Kepler Problem -- The Transition From Classical to Quantum Mechanics -- The New World of Quantum Mechanics -- The Quantization of Integrable Systems -- Wave Functions in Classically Chaotic Systems -- The Energy Spectrum of a Classically Chaotic System -- The Trace Formula -- The Diamagnetic Kepler Problem -- Motion on a Surface of Constant Negative Curvature -- Scattering Problems, Coding and Multifractal Invariant Measures -- References -- Index