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Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics (Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series)

By Pierre Gaspard

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521018250, 9780521018258
Open Library ID
OL7713504M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
65 MB (68406104 bytes)
Pages
484\484
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This book describes recent advances in the application of chaos theory to classical scattering and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics generally, and to transport by deterministic diffusion in particular. The author presents the basic tools of dynamical systems theory, such as dynamical instability, topological analysis, periodic-orbit methods, Liouvillian dynamics, dynamical randomness and large-deviation formalism. These tools are applied to chaotic scattering and to transport in systems near equilibrium and maintained out of equilibrium. This book will be bought by researchers interested in chaos, dynamical systems, chaotic scattering, and statistical mechanics in theoretical, computational and mathematical physics and also in theoretical chemistry.

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