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It is well known that in dynamical systems governed by long-range forces, the secular evolution of the system is driven predominantly by collective effects. In the current paper, we report the discovery of such a collective dissipation process induced by a self-sustained spiral density wave, which leads to important secular evolution effects in spiral galaxies.
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Zhang, X. (1996). On the Spiral-Induced Nonlinear Dissipative Process to the Evolution of the Galactic Disk. In: Blitz, L., Teuben, P. (eds) Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 169. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1687-6_79
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