Dynamical Chaos in Planetary Systems

Dynamical Chaos in Planetary SystemsSpringer, 2020, 376 pp., Hardcover. $159.00. www.springer.com

This is the first monograph dedicated entirely to problems of stability and chaotic behavior in planetary systems and its subsystems. The author explores the three rapidly developing interplaying fields of resonant and chaotic dynamics of Hamiltonian systems, the dynamics of solar system bodies, and the dynamics of exoplanetary systems. The necessary concepts, methods, and tools used to study dynamical chaos (such as symplectic maps, Lyapunov exponents and timescales, chaotic diffusion rates, stability diagrams, and charts) are described and then used to show in detail how the observed dynamical architectures arise in the solar system (and its subsystems) and in exoplanetary systems. The book concentrates on chaotic diffusion and clearing effects. The potential readership of this book includes scientists and students working in astrophysics, planetary science, celestial mechanics, and nonlinear dynamics.

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