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On the existence and non-existence of closed trajectories for some Hamiltonian flows

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1991 Mathematical Subject Classification: Primary 58F22, Secondary 53C15, 57R70, 70H05.

The author was supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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Ginzburg, V.L. On the existence and non-existence of closed trajectories for some Hamiltonian flows. Math Z 223, 397–409 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00004565

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