Boltzmann's Dilemma: An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics via the Kac Ring

DOI10.1137/070705799zbMath1173.82356OpenAlexW2155572780MaRDI QIDQ3398290

Georg A. Gottwald, Marcel Oliver

Publication date: 28 September 2009

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/78cb5486f14a49f70a64d4e1dfba99778a5c5fe1

zbMATH Keywords

entropystatistical mechanicsirreversibilitycoarse-graining

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Exactly solvable dynamic models in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C23)

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