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Some critical remarks on relaxation inN-body systems

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We analyse in detail the origin of some controversial points concerning the relationships between thechaotic behaviour of dynamics and therelaxation properties of Hamiltonian systems with many degrees of freedom (m.d.f.), showing that most claims existing in the literature and applied, in particular, to theN-body self-gravitating systems, are, at least, unjustified.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma I «La Sapienza», I-00185, Roma, Italia

    P. Cipriani

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133, Roma, Italia

    G. Pucacco

  3. ICRA, Università di Roma I «La Sapienza», Roma, Italia

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Cipriani, P., Pucacco, G. Some critical remarks on relaxation inN-body systems. Nuov Cim B 109, 325–330 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02727295

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