DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
 Volume 6  Number 2  April 2000

CONTENTS

Qiudong Wang , The diffusion time of the connecting orbit around rotation number zero for the monotone twist maps; 255

Safya Belghith , Symbolic dynamics in nondifferentiable system originating in R-L-Diode driven circuit; 275

A.A. Zevin and M.A. Pinsky , Qualitative analysis of periodic oscillations of an earth satellite with magnetic attitude stabilization; 293

C. Kopf , Symbol sequences and entropy for piecewise monotone transformations with discontinuities; 299

S. Bonafede, G.R. Cirmi and A.F. Tedeev, Finite speed of propagation for the porous media equation with lower order terms; 305

Ana Maria Bertone and J.V. Goncalves , Discontinuous elliptic problems in $R^N$: lower and upper solutions and variational principles; 315

Stefano Bianchini , On the shift differentiability of the flow generated by a hyperbolic system of conservation laws; 328

Viorel Nitica, Examples of topologically transitive skew-products; 351

M. Bardi, S. Koike, and P. Soravia , Pursuit-evasion games with state constraints: dynamic programming and discrete-time approximations; 361

Antonio Garcia , Transition tori near an elliptic fixed point; 381

P. Fabrie, C. Galusinskiand and A. Miranville , Uniform inertial sets for damped wave equations; 393

T. Chang, G.-Q. Chen, and S. Yang , On the 2-D Riemann problem for the compressible Euler equations II. Interaction of contact discontinuities; 419

J.-P. Raymond and F. Tr\"oltzsch , Second order sufficient optimality conditions for nonlinear parabolic control problems with state constraints; 431

Jiu Ding and Aihui Zhou, Absolutely continuous invariant measures for piecewise $C^2$ and expanding mappings in higher dimensions; 451

Taddei Valentina , Bound sets for Floquet boundary value problems: The nonsmooth case; 459

Alessandro Fonda and Rafael Ortega , Positively homogeneous equations in the plane; 475

H. Takaoka , Global well-posedness for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II equation; 483

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