ISBN: 3540676201
TITLE: Hard Ball Systems and the Lorentz Gas
AUTHOR: Bunimovich, L.A.; Burago, D.; Chernov, N.; Cohen, E.G.D.; Dettmann, C.P.; Dorfman, J.R.; Ferleger, S.; Hirschl, R.; Kononenko, A.; Lebowitz, J.L.; Liverani, C.; Murphy, T.J.; Piasecki, J.; Posch, H.A.; Simanyi, N.; Sinai, Ya.; Szasz, D.; Tel, T.; Beijeren, H. van; Zon, R. van; Vollmer, J.; Young, L.S.
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Introduction
D. Szsz 1
I. Mathematics
A Geometric Approach to Semi-Dispersing Billiards
D. Burago, S. Ferleger and A. Kononenko 9
On the Sequences of Collisions Among Hard Spheres in Infinite Space
T. J. Murphy and E. G. D. Cohen 29
Hard Ball Systems and Semi-Dispersive Billiards: Hyperbolicity and Ergodicity
N. Simnyi 51
Decay of Correlations for Lorentz Gases and Hard Balls
N. Chernov and L.-S. Young 89
Entropy Values and Entropy Bounds
N. Chernov 121
Existence of Transport Coefficients
L. A. Bunimovich 145
Interacting Particles
C. Liverani 179
Scaling Dynamics of a Massive Piston in an Ideal Gas
J. L. Lebowitz, J. Piasecki and Ya. Sinai 217
II. Physics
Kinetic Theory Estimates for the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy, and the Largest Lyapunov Exponents for Dilute, Hard Ball Gases and for Dilute, Random Lorentz Gases
R. van Zon, H. van Beijeren and J. R. Dorfman 231
Simulation of Billiards and of Hard Body Fluids
H. A. Posch and R. Hirschl 279
The Lorentz Gas: A Paradigm for Nonequilibrium Stationary States
C. P. Dettmann 315
Entropy Balance, Multibaker Maps, and the Dynamics of the Lorentz Gas
T. Tl and J. Vollmer 367
Appendix
Boltzmann's Ergodic Hypothesis, a Conjecture for Centuries?
D. Szsz 421
Author Index 447
Subject Index 449
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