Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 79 No. 5 (1988) pp. 991-996

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Letters

Instability of Quasi-Linear Hyperbolic Systems

— The Hamiltonian Dynamical System Approach —

Shinji Koga and Shinji Akiyama^*

Department of Physics, Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka 543
^*Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606

(Received November 10, 1987)

Abstract:

We investigate the instability of the quasi-linear hyperbolic system as the transient process, by examining the first Lyapunov exponent of the corresponding Hamiltonian system with a large number of degrees of freedom.

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/79/991/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.79.991

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