Title: Irreversibility and causality
First published: 1998
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
Subjects: Congresses, Semigroups, Hilbert space, Mathematical physics, Irreversible processes, Causality (Physics), Quantum theory, Mathematics, Global analysis (Mathematics), Physics, Quantum computing, Engineering, Analysis, Complexity, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Numerical and Computational Methods, Information and Physics Quantum Computing
LC classification: QC174.17.I76 I54 1996