Three-Dimensional Systems

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Preface
The Existence and Morphology of Three-Dimensional Galaxies	p. 1
Self-Gravitating Models for Polar Rings	p. 12
Observations of Warped Disks and Polar Rings in the 21-cm Line of Neutral Hydrogen	p. 27
Orbit of Gas Clouds as Probes of the Shape of a Rotating Triaxial Potential	p. 39
Satellites as Probes of the Halos of Spiral Galaxies	p. 53
Accreted Disks as Probes of Galactic Geometry	p. 65
Nonuniqueness of Self-Consistent Models	p. 76
Chaos and Noise in Galactic Dynamics	p. 93
Order and Chaos in Three-Dimensional Systems	p. 112
Complex Instability: A Typical Instability in Multidimensional Hamiltonian Systems	p. 131
Short Wavelength Instabilities of Asymmetric, Rotating Masses	p. 144
Canonical Integration of the Collisionless Boltzmann Equation	p. 152
Numerical Stochasticity, Hamiltonian Integrators, and the Schrodinger Equation	p. 162
Chaotic Scattering in Systems with More Than Two Degrees of Freedom	p. 182
Escape Probabilities in a Hamiltonian with Two Channels of Escape	p. 205
Computer-Assisted Shadowing of Nonhyperbolic Maps	p. 213
Counterrotating Orbits, and Stability in Two- and Three-Dimensional Systems	p. 222
Index of Contributors	p. 229
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