The nonconservation of adiabatic invariants which arises in systems with three or more degrees of freedom.
Arnold Diffusion
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References
Lichtenberg, A. and Lieberman, M. Regular and Stochastic Motion, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994.Rasband, S. N. "Arnold Diffusion." §8.6 in Chaotic Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems. New York: Wiley, pp. 179-181, 1990.Tabor, M. Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction. New York: Wiley, p. 74, 1989.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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