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astro-ph2001★ 557 cited
The Gravitational Million-Body Problem
Douglas C. Heggie
We review what has been learned recently using N-body simulations about the evolution of globular clusters. While simulations of star clusters have become more realistic, and now i…
astro-ph2001★ 13 cited
Orbital Divergence and Relaxation in the Gravitational N-Body Problem
P. Hut, D. C. Heggie
One of the fundamental aspects of statistical behaviour in many-body systems is exponential divergence of neighbouring orbits, which is often discussed in terms of Liapounov expone…
astro-ph2001
Two collaborative experiments in star cluster evolution
Douglas C. Heggie
We summarise the specification and some previously unpublished results of the collaborative experiment (``KyotoI'') that was carried out at the time of the Kyoto General Assembly o…