Year: 1979
Type: article
Abstract: Developments in the foundations of statistical mechanics during the past ten years or so. The author discusses how statistical concepts enter the treatment of deterministic mechanical systems, with particular reference to trajectory instabilities and to the KAM theorem. Then he deals with large systems: the thermodynamic limit and the theory of infinite systems. Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics is covered but LC relativistic statistical mechanics is not.
Source: Reports on Progress in Physics
Author: O Penrose
Institution: The Open University
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4211085380