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The Ubiquitous Astroid

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The Physics of Structure Formation

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Synergetics ((SSSYN,volume 37))

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The aim of this lecture is to show how the form of the astroid arises naturally in a variety of physical problems that in one way or another can be seen as perturbations away from circular symmetry, and to give some mathematical insight into why this should be the case.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton, SO9 5NH, Southampton, UK

    D. Chillingworth

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  1. Institut für Informationsverarbeitung, Universität Tübingen, D-7400, Tübingen, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Werner Güttinger  & Gerhard Dangelmayr  & 

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Chillingworth, D. (1987). The Ubiquitous Astroid. In: Güttinger, W., Dangelmayr, G. (eds) The Physics of Structure Formation. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73001-6_29

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