ENGLISH

Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics

By Pierre Gaspard

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780521018258, 0521018250
Open Library ID
OL7713504M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
17 MB (17536473 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series
Pages
484\484
Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

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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