Critical phenomena in natural sciences. Chaos, fractals, selforganization and disorder: concepts and tools

zbMath0977.82001MaRDI QIDQ1589310

Publication date: 10 December 2000

Published in: Springer Series in Synergetics (Search for Journal in Brave)

phase transitions percolation renormalization group bifurcations large deviations statistical physics fractals limit theorems probability distributions long-range correlations power laws random spin systems self-organised criticality distributions with heavy tails extreme value theorems rupture models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-01)

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