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Breakdown and regeneration of time reversal symmetry in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

✍ Scribed by Giovanni Gallavotti

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
687 KB
Volume
112
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-2789

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✦ Synopsis

A review and nontechnical exposition of recent studies on the relevance of time reversal, on its spontaneous breakdowns, and on its possible resurgence as a weaker symmetry that still anticommutes with time evolution are given.

1. Time reversal and irreversibility

This review illustrates joint work with Bonetto [1] and Garrido [2].

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