Large Deviations in Physics The Legacy of the Law of Large Numbers

This book reviews the basic ideas of the Law of Large Numbers with its consequences to the deterministic world and the issue of ergodicity. Applications of Large Deviations and their outcomes to Physics are surveyed. The book covers topics encompassing ergodicity and its breaking and the modern applications of Large deviations to equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, disordered and chaotic systems, and turbulence.

Summary

This book reviews the basic ideas of the Law of Large Numbers with its consequences to the deterministic world and the issue of ergodicity. Applications of Large Deviations and their outcomes to Physics are surveyed. The book covers topics encompassing ergodicity and its breaking and the modern applications of Large deviations to equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, disordered and chaotic systems, and turbulence.

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• Assisted by: Fabi Cecconi (Editor), Massimo Cencini et al (Editor), Massimo Cencini (Editor), Fabio Cecconi (Editor), Andrea Puglisi (Editor), Davide Vergni (Editor), Angelo Vulpiani (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.09.2014
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics
• EAN: 9783642542503
• ISBN: 978-3-642-54250-3
• Pages: 314
• Illustrations: XIV, 314 p. 58 illus., 18 illus. in color.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.7 x 1.9 x 23.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 499 g
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics > 885; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: B, Klassische Mechanik, Angewandte Mathematik, Kybernetik und Systemtheorie, Applications of Mathematics, Classical mechanics, Complex systems, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Physics and Astronomy, Mechanics, Mathematical physics, Dynamical systems, Engineering mathematics, Applied mathematics, Dynamics & statics, Statistical physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems