The Physics of Chaos in Hamiltonanian Systems

✍ Scribed by George M. Zaslavsky

• Book ID: 127450937
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library
• ISBN: 1860947956

✦ Synopsis

This book aims to familiarize the reader with the essential properties of the chaotic dynamics of Hamiltonian systems by avoiding specialized mathematical tools, thus making it easily accessible to a broader audience of researchers and students. Unique material on the most intriguing and fascinating topics of unsolved and current problems in contemporary chaos theory is presented. The coverage includes: separatrix chaos; properties and a description of systems with non-ergodic dynamics; the distribution of Poincaré recurrences and their role in transport theory; dynamical models of the Maxwell's Demon, the occurrence of persistent fluctuations, and a detailed discussion of their role in the problem underlying the foundation of statistical physics; the emergence of stochastic webs in phase space and their link to space tiling with periodic (crystal type) and aperiodic (quasi-crystal type) symmetries.

✦ Subjects

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