On the Role of Chaos and Instability in the Evolution of Nonlinear Nonstationary Stellar Systems

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Abstract The role of chaos and instability in evolution of nonlinear, non-stationary stellar system have been discussed. It is possible to distinguish between the only two different cases (i) strongly non-stationary stage when we have the violent relaxation accompanied by the compulsive mixing (ii) weakly non-stationary state or quasilinear case, when the quasidiffusion mixing takes place. In case (i), the chaos and chaotic motion g stars play very important role and in case (ii) the role of any type of instability is important.

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10.1017/s0252921100065908

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