Multidimensional systems global dynamics

We are beginning to understand chaotic structure in a way not seen before. Numerical methods of measuring chaotic and regular behaviour such as Fast Liapunov Indicators, sup-maps, twist-angles, Frequency Map Analysis, fourier spectal analysis are providing lucid maps of the global dynamical behaviour of multidimensional systems. Fourier spectral analysis of orbits looks to be a powerful tool for the study of Nekhoroshev type stability. Identification of the main resonances and measures of the diffusion of trajectories can be found easily and quickly. Applied to the full N-body problem without simplification, use of these tools is beginning to explain the observed behaviour of real physical systems. 

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