UK Nonlinear News, August 1998

Journal News

NONLINEARITY

 771 Generalised entropies: R\'enyi and correlation integral approach F. Takens and E. Verbitski 783 Skyrmions and domain walls in 2+1 dimensions A. Kudryavtsev, B.M.A.G. Piette and W.J. Zakrzewski 797 Structure of shock waves in planar motion of plasma Y. Farjami and M. Hesaaraki 823 Casorati determinant solutions for the q-difference sixth Painlev\'e equation H. Sakai 835 Null Killing vectors and reductions of the self-duality equations J. Tafel and D. W\'ojcik 845 Removing the time dependence in a rapidly oscillating Hamiltonian I.R. Gabitov and I.D. Marshall 859 Grazing, skipping and sliding: Analysis of the non-smooth dynamics of the DC/DC buck converter M. di Bernardo, C. Budd and A. Champneys 891 Solitons/instantons in d-dimensional SO(d) gauged O(d+ 1) Skyrme models Y. Brihaye and D.H. Tchrakian 913 Computing connectedness: An exercise in computational topology V. Robins, J.D. Meiss and E. Bradley 923 The pulled Frenkel--Kontorova chain S. Slijep\v{c}evi\'{c} 949 Gradient dynamics of tilted Frenkel--Kontorova models C. Baesens and R.S. MacKay 965 Multisite oscillations in networks of weakly coupled autonomous oscillators T. Ahn 991 An infinite step billiard M. Degli Esposti, G. Del Magno and M. Lenci 1015 Harmonic inversion as a general method for periodic orbit quantisation J. Main, V.A. Mandelshtam, G. Wunner and H.S. Taylor 1037 Singularities of vector fields on $\rm {\Bbb R}^3$ F. Dumortier and S. Ib\'a {n}ez 1049 Dynamic localisation of Lyapunov vectors in spacetime chaos A. Pikovsky and A. Politi 1063 Hausdorff dimension estimates for invariant sets with an equivariant tangent bundle splitting A. Franz 1075 Inertial manifolds for nonlinear viscoelasticity equations B. Nicolaenko and W. Qian 1095 Ergodicity of billiards in polygons with pockets N. Chernov and S. Troubetzkoy 1103 Metastable stationary solutions of the radial $d$-dimensional sine-Gordon model B. Piette and W.J. Zakrzewski 1111 From Morse--Smale to all knots and links R. Ghrist and T. Young 1127 The dynamics of some quantum open systems with short-range nonlinearities F. Nier 1173 Large deviations for maps with indifferent fixed points M. Pollicott, R. Sharp and M. Yuri