edited by Ernesto A Lacomba (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico) & Jaume Llibre (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

This volume puts together several important lectures on the Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics to form a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on the subject. Their relationship to several aspects of topology, mechanics and dynamical systems in general are also emphasized. The papers presented are an outgrowth of the lectures that took place during the & #x201C;International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics & #x201D;, which was held at Cocoyoc (Morelos, M & #xE9;xico) from September 13 to 17, 1994.

• Capture Orbits in a Newtonian n-Body Problem (S F Blundell)
• Poincar & #xE9;-Melnikov Method for Parabolic Points (J Casasayas et al.)
• The Spring-Pendulum System and the Riemann Equation (R C Churchill et al.)
• Fast Rotations of the Rigid Body (F Fass & #xF2;)
• Billiard that Share a Triangular Caustic (E Gutkin & O#x27;Knill)
• Equilibria of Spherical Charge Distributions (R C Howison & C K McCord)
• Equivariant Generating Functions and Periodic Points (K R Meyer)
• Spectral Stability of Relative Equilibria in the n+1 Body Problem (D S Schmidt)
• The Horseshoe Map in the Collinear Three-Body Problem (Q Wang)
• and other papers