Topics in Gravitational Dynamics Solar, Extra-Solar and Galactic Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Benest, Daniel (Editor), Froeschle, Claude (Editor), Lega, Elena (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 729
• Subjects: Physics.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
• Physical Description: X, 413 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540729846
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;

This set of lectures collects surveys of open problems in celestial dynamics and dynamical astronomy applied to solar, extra-solar and galactic systems. Emphasis is on questions of stability of planetary systems. In particular the discovery and thus the possibility to study many new extra-solar planetary systems have spurred new developments in the field and enabled the testing and enlargement of the domains of validity of theoretical predictions through the Nekhoroshev theorem.