Symmetry and Perturbation Theory

Book excerpt: This is the fourth conference on OC Supersymmetry and Perturbation TheoryOCO (SPT 2002). The proceedings present original results and state-of-the-art reviews on topics related to symmetry, integrability and perturbation theory, etc. Contents: An Outline of the Geometrical Theory of the Separation of Variables in the Hamilton-Jacobi and SchrAdinger Equations (S Benenti); Partial Symmetries and Symmetric Sets of Solutions to PDE's (G Cicogna); On the Algebro-Geometric Solution of 3 x 3 Matrix Riemann-Hilbert Problem (V Enolski & T Grava); Bifurcations in Flow-Induced Vibration (S Fatimah & F Verhulst); Steklov-Lyapunov Type Systems (Yu N Fedorov); Renormalization Group and Summation of Divergent Series for Hyperbolic Invariant Tori (G Gentile); On the Linearization of Holomorphic Vector Fields in the Siegel Domain with Linear Parts Having Nontrivial Jordan Blocks (T Gramchev); Smooth Normalization of a Vector Field Near an Invariant Manifold (A Kopanskii); Inverse Problems for SL (2) Lattices (V B Kuznetsov); Some Remarks about the Geometry of Hamiltonian Conservation Laws (J-P Ortega); Janet's Algorithm (W Plesken); Some Integrable Billiards (E Previato); Symmetries of Relative Equilibria for Simple Mechanical Systems (M Rodr guez-Olmos & M E Sousa Dias); A Spectral Sequences Approach to Normal Forms (J A Sanders); Rational Parametrization of Strata in Orbit Spaces of Compact Linear Groups (G Sartori & G Valente); Effective Hamiltonians and Perturbation Theory for Quantum Bound States of Nuclear Motion in Molecules (V G Tyuterev); Generalized Hasimoto Transformation and Vector Sine-Gordon Equation (J P Wang); and other papers. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in mathematical and theoretical physics, and nonlinear science."