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A note on focus-focus singularities

N. Zung

1997.6.1DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

DOI: 10.1016/s0926-2245(96)00042-3

Abstract

Abstract We give a topological and geometrical description of focus-focus singularities of integrable Hamiltonian systems. In particular, we explain why the monodromy around these singularities is non-trivial, a result obtained before by J.J. Duistermaat and others for some concrete systems.

Citation format

ZUNG, N. A note on focus-focus singularities [preprint]. arXiv, 1997. arXiv:math/0110147.