Local and Global Methods of Nonlinear Dynamics: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Naval Surface Weapons Center, Silver Spring, MD, July 23–26, 1984: Lecture Notes in Physics, cartea 252

Global aspects of periodic solutions of nonlinear conservative system.- Lecture 1: On resonant hamiltonian systems with finitely many degrees of freedom..- Lecture 2: Realizations of the reduced phase space of a hamiltonian system with symmetry.- KAM Today.- Note on the evolution of the Lie-Deprit transform.- Lie transforms: A perspective.- The covariant lie-transformed plasma action principle.- Geometric Hamiltonian structures and perturbation theory.- Lie point transformation group solutions of the nonlinear Vlasov-Maxwell equations.- A constructive solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation.- Local and global aspects of a generalized Hamiltonian theory.- Particle channeling in crystals and the method of averaging.- Rigorous stability results on crystal channeling via canonical maps.- Some considerations for a theory of approximate invariants.- Exact invariants in the form of momentum resonances for particle motion in one-dimensional, time-dependent potentials.