Exact invariants for a class of three-dimensional time-dependent classical hamiltonians

Struckmeier1, Riedel

  • 1Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.

Physical Review Letters
|October 21, 2000
PubMed

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