Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics

by Pierre Gaspard

Book Overview

This book describes 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521018250
• ISBN13: 9780521018258
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"