Transport properties in nontwist area-preserving maps

J D Szezech1, I L Caldas, S R Lopes

  • 1Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 05315-970 Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)
|January 12, 2010
PubMed

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