Cataclysmic variables and the amplitude-cycle length relationship

After a survey of the latest state of knowledge on cataclysmic variables in general (Chapter 1) and recurrent novae in particular (Chapter 2), the amplitude-cycle length relationship (A-C relation) is rederived (Chapter 3) after statistical correction for published incorrect values of C. While the A-C relationship of dwarf novae is of the form A = -0.40 + 2.50 log C, it is, presumably for physical reasons less sharply defined for the few known recurrent novae.