Singularities in Gravitational Systems

Singularities, Collisions and Regularization Theory.- The Levi-Civita, KS and Radial-Inversion Regularizing Transformations.- The Birkhoff and B 3 Regularizing Transformations.- Perturbative Methods in Regularization Theory.- Collisions and Singularities in the n-body Problem.- Triple Collision and Close Triple Encounters.- Dynamical and Kinetic Aspects of Collisions.- Chaotic Scattering in Planetary Rings.- Close Encounters in Öpik's Theory.- Generalized Averaging Principle and Proper Elements for NEAs.

"[...] The book contains many interesting and attractive topics for a wide audience, and reaches the high standards of the previous works of the editors." (Antonio Elipe, Celestial Mechanics - An International Journal of Space Dynamics 2004, vol. 89, page 97-98)