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Mather, J.N., Forni, G. (1994). Action minimizing orbits in hamiltomian systems. In: Graffi, S. (eds) Transition to Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0074076

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