The ergodic hierarchy, randomness and Hamiltonian chaos

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.02.003zbMath1223.37010OpenAlexW2155468359MaRDI QIDQ643072

Joseph Berkovitz, Fred Kronz, Roman Frigg

Publication date: 27 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.230.8691

zbMATH Keywords

correlationchaosdynamical systempredictabilityrandomnessergodic hierarchy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol'd diffusion (37J40) History of dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-03)

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