Geometry and topology in Hamiltonian dynamics and statistical mechanics

DOI10.1007/978-0-387-49957-4zbMath1123.37021arXiv0711.1484OpenAlexW2995671148WikidataQ105577617 ScholiaQ105577617MaRDI QIDQ850936

Marco Pettini

Publication date: 8 November 2006

Published in: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1484

zbMATH Keywords

quantum theory Hamiltonian dynamics complex systems statistical mechanics phase transition phenomena Hamiltonian chaos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-02) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-02) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15) Topological and differential topological methods for problems in mechanics (70G40)

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