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Physics Of Chaos In Hamiltonian Systems.
Title:
Physics Of Chaos In Hamiltonian Systems.
Author:
Zaslavsky, George M.
ISBN:
9781860948619
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- 1 DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS MODELS -- 1.1 Coexistence of the Dynamical Order and Chaos -- 1.2 The Standard Map (Kicked Rotator) -- 1.3 The Web-Map (Kicked Oscillator) -- 1.4 Perturbed Pendulum -- 1.5 Perturbed Oscillator -- 1.6 Billiards -- Conclusions -- 2 SEPARATRIX CHAOS -- 2.1 Nonlinear Resonance and Chain of Islands -- 2.2 Overlapping of Resonances -- 2.3 The Separatrix Map -- 2.4 Stochastic Layer -- 2.5 Hidden Renormalisation Group Near the Separatrix -- 2.6 Renormalisation of Resonances -- 2.7 Stochastic Layer of the Standard Map -- Conclusions -- 3 THE PHASE SPACE OF CHAOS -- 3.1 Non-universality of the Scenario -- 3.2 Collapsing Islands -- 3.3 Blinking Islands -- 3.4 Boundary Islands -- 3.5 Self-Similar Set of Islands -- 3.6 Ballistic Mode Islands -- 3.7 General Comments About the Islands -- Conclusions -- 4 NONLINEARITY VERSUS PERTURBATION -- 4.1 Beyond the KAM-Theory -- 4.2 Web-Tori -- 4.3 Width of the Stochastic Web -- 4.4 Transition from the KAM-Tori to Web-Tori -- Conclusions -- 5 FRACTALS AND CHAOS -- 5.1 Fractal Dynamics -- 5.2 Generalised Fractal Dimension -- 5.3 Renormalisation Group and Generalised Fractal Dimension -- 5.4 Multi-Fractal Spectra -- Conclusions -- 6 POINCAR RECURRENCES AND FRACTAL TIME -- 6.1 Poincare Recurrences -- 6.2 Poissonian Distribution of Recurrences -- 6.3 Non-Ergodicity, Stickiness and Quasi-Traps -- 6.4 Renormalisation Formulas for the Exit Time Distribution -- 6.5 Fractal Time -- 6.6 Fractal and Multi-Fractal Recurrences -- 6.7 Multi-Fractal Space-Time and Its Dimension Spectrum -- 6.8 Critical Exponent for the Poincare Recurrences -- 6.9 Rhombic Billiard -- Conclusions -- 7 CHAOS AND FOUNDATION OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS -- 7.1 The Dynamical Foundation of Statistical Physics -- 7.2 Fractal Traps and Maxwell's Demon.

7.3 Coupled Billiards -- 7.4 Contacted Cassini-Sinai Billiards -- 7.5 Weak Mixing and Stickiness -- 7.6 Persistent Fluctuations -- Conclusions -- 8 CHAOS AND SYMMETRY -- 8.1 Stochastic Webs -- 8.2 Stochastic Web with Quasi-Crystalline Symmetry -- 8.3 Stochastic Web Skeleton -- 8.4 Symmetries and Their Dynamical Generation -- 8.5 The Width of the Stochastic Web -- Conclusions -- COLOUR PLATES (C.1 C.8) -- 9 MORE DEGREES OF FREEDOM -- 9.1 General Remarks -- 9.2 Four-Dimensional Map for the Motion in Magnetic Field -- 9.3 Multi-Web Structures in the Phase Space -- 9.4 Equilibrium of the Atomic Chains -- 9.5 Discretisation -- Conclusions -- 10 NORMAL AND ANOMALOUS KINETICS -- 10.1 Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) Equation -- 10.2 Transport for the Standard Map and Web-Map -- 10.3 Dynamics in the Potential with q-Fold Symmetry -- 10.4 More Examples of the Anomalous Transport -- 10.5 Levy Processes -- 10.6 The Weierstrass Random Walk -- Conclusions -- 11 FRACTIONAL KINETICS -- 11.1 Fractional Generalisation of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov Equation (FFPK) -- 11.2 Evolution of Moments -- 11.3 Method of the Renormalisation Group for Kinetics (RGK) -- 11.4 Complex Exponents and Log-Periodicity -- Conclusions -- 12 WEAK CHAOS AND PSEUDOCHAOS -- 12.1 Definitions -- 12.2 Billiards with Pseudochaotic Dynamics -- 12.3 Filamented Surfaces -- 12.4 Bar-in-Square Billiard -- 12.5 Renormalisation Group Equation for Recurrences -- 12.6 Recurrences in the Multi-Bar-Billiard -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1 THE NONLINEAR PENDULUM -- Appendix 2 SOLUTION TO THE RENORMALISATION TRANSFORM EQUATION -- Appendix 3 FRACTIONAL INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIATION -- Appendix 4 FORMULAS OF FRACTIONAL CALCULUS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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. This second edition expands on pseudochaotic dynamics with weak mixing and the new phenomenon of fractional kinetics, which is crucial to the transport properties of chaotic motion. The book is ideally suited to all those who are actively working on the problems of dynamical chaos as well as to those looking for new inspiration in this area. It introduces the physicist to the world of Hamiltonian chaos and the mathematician to actual physical problems.The material can also be used by graduate students.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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