Patrizia Castiglione, Massimo Falcioni, Annick Lesne

Chaos and Coarse Graining in Statistical Mechanics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents concepts of chaotic systems for researchers and graduate students in statistical mechanics and chaos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895934
• ISBN-10: 0521895936
• Artikelnr.: 24926728

Autorenporträt

Patrizia Castiglione is a Researcher at the Institut des Nanosciences de Paris. Her main research topics are dynamical systems theory, quantum and classic chaos, turbulence, and the physics of colours applied to the study of artwork.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Basic concepts of dynamical systems theory
2. Dynamical indicators for chaotic systems: Lyapunov exponents, entropies and beyond
3. Coarse graining, entropies and Lyapunov exponents at work
4. Foundation of the statistical mechanics and dynamical systems
5. On the origin of irreversibility
6. The role of chaos in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
7. Coarse-graining equations in complex systems
8. Renormalization-group approaches
Index.