DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
 Volume 4  Number 4  October 1998

CONTENTS

Arek Goetz, Dynamics of a piecewise rotation 593

Peng Zhang, Jiequan Li and Tong Zhang, On two-dimensional Riemann problem for pressure-gradient equations of the Euler system 609

Pedro Freitas, The linear damped wave equation, Hamiltonian symmetry, and the importance of being odd 635

Maciej Smolka, Asymptotic behaviour of optimal solutions of control problems governed by inclusions 641

Andrew E.B. Lim and John B. Moore, A path following algorithm for infinite quadratic programming on a Hilbert space 653

Thierry Colin and Pierre Fabrie, Semidiscretization in time for nonlinear Schr\"odinger-waves equations 671

Matthias B\"uger, Torsion numbers, a tool for the examination of symmetric reaction-diffusion systems related to oscillation numbers 691

Anna Maria Micheletti and Angela Pistoia, Multiple eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and deformation of the Riemannian metric 709

Bopeng Rao, Optimal energy decay rate in a damped Rayleigh beam 721

Horst R. Thieme, Positive perturbation of operator semigroups: Growth bounds, essential compactness, and asynchronous exponential growth 735

Maria Carvalho, First homoclinic tangencies in the boundary of Anosov diffeomorphisms 765

Guo Boling and Dai Zhengde, Attractor for the dissipative Hamiltonian amplitude equation governing modulated wave instabilities 783

Author Index to Volume IV 795

Contents of Volume IV 797

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