Irreversibility and causality
Subtitle: semigroups and rigged Hilbert space : a selection of articles presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) at Goslar, Germany, July 16-21, 1996
By: Arno Bohm, Heinz-Dietrich Doebner, Piotr Kielanowski (eds.).
Contributors: Böhm, Arno, 1936-; Doebner, H. D. 1931-; Kielanowski, P. 1944-
Series: Lecture notes in physics,; 504
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Irreversible processes -- Congresses.; Semigroups -- Congresses.; Hilbert space -- Congresses.; Causality (Physics) -- Congresses.; Mathematical physics -- Congresses.
Description: This volume has its origin in the Semigroup Symposium which was organized in connection with the 21st International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) at Goslar, Germany, July 16-21, 1996. Just as groups are important tools for the description of reversible physical processes, semigroups are indispensable in the description of irreversible physical processes in which a direction of time is distinguished. There is ample evidence of time asymmetry in the microphysical world. The desire to go beyond the stationary systems has generated much recent effort and discussion regarding the application of semigroups to time-asymmetric processes. The book should be of interest to scientists and graduate students
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.