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Inhaltsangabe1 Overview and Basic Concepts.- 2 Canonical Perturbation Theory.- 3 Mappings and Linear Stability.- 4 Transition to Global Stochasticity.- 5 Stochastic Motion and Diffusion.- 6 Three or More Degrees of Freedom.- 7 Bifurcation Phenomena and Transition to Chaos in Dissipative Systems.- 8 Chaotic Motion in Dissipative Systems.- Appendix A.- Applications.- A.1. Planetary Motion.- A.2. Accelerators and Beams.- A.3. Charged Particle Confinement.- A.4. Charged Particle Heating.- A.5. Chemical Dynamics.- A.6. Quantum Systems.- Author Index.

Text-reference for physical scientists and engineers as well as advanced graduate students treats chaotic motion in nonlinear dynamical systems. The main emphasis of the first edition of 1983 (titled Regular and stochastic motion ) was on intrinsic stochasticity in Hamiltonian systems. This has been broadened to include a thorough introduction to c