Chaos, Scattering and Statistical Mechanics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521395113)

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.

Author: Pierre Gaspard
ISBN-10: 0521395119
ISBN-13: 9780521395113
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/21/1998
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 1.10d