DOES THE INTERACTION BETWEEN COLLECTIVE AND SINGLE-PARTICLE DEGREES OF FREEDOM IN NUCLEI LEAD TO DYNAMIC CHAOS

We study the interaction between collective and single-particle degrees of freedom in nuclei in the framework of simple classical models. Order-of-magnitude estimates show that, without invoking the residual nucleon-nucleon interaction, the coupling of collective and single-particle motion is not strong enough to produce dynamical chaos in any of these models.