1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144619903321

Autore

Jiang Da-Quan

Titolo

Mathematical Theory of Nonequilibrium Steady States : On the Frontier of Probability and Dynamical Systems / / by Da-Quan Jiang, Min Qian, Ming-Ping Qian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2004

ISBN

3-540-40957-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2004.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 286 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1833

Disciplina

530

Soggetti

Probabilities

Dynamics

Ergodic theory

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Statistical physics

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory

Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds

Complex Systems

Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Circulation Distribution, Entropy Production and Irreversibility of Denumerable Markov Chains -- Circulation Distribution, Entropy Production and Irreversibility of Finite Markov Chains with Continuous Parameter -- General Minimal Diffusion Process: its Construction, Invariant Measure, Entropy Production and Irreversibility -- Measure-theoretic Discussion on Entropy Production of Diffusion Processes and Fluctuation-dissipation Theorem -- Entropy Production, Rotation Numbers and Irreversibility of Diffusion Processes on Manifolds -- On a System of Hyperstable Frequency Locking Persistence under White Noise -- Entropy Production and Information Gain in Axiom A Systems -- Lyapunov Exponents of Hyperbolic



Attractors -- Entropy Production, Information Gain and Lyapunov Exponents of Random Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides a systematic mathematical exposition of the conceptual problems of nonequilibrium statistical physics, such as entropy production, irreversibility, and ordered phenomena. Markov chains, diffusion processes, and hyperbolic dynamical systems are used as mathematical models of physical systems. A measure-theoretic definition of entropy production rate and its formulae in various cases are given. It vanishes if and only if the stationary system is reversible and in equilibrium. Moreover, in the cases of Markov chains and diffusion processes on manifolds, it can be expressed in terms of circulations on directed cycles. Regarding entropy production fluctuations, the Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation theorem is rigorously proved.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970127603321

Titolo

Medieval poetics and social practice : responding to the work of Penn R. Szittya / / edited by Seeta Chaganti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

9780823243273

0823243273

9780823243280

0823243281

9780823246236

082324623X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Fordham series in medieval studies

Altri autori (Persone)

ChagantiSeeta

SzittyaPenn R. <1945->

Disciplina

821/.109353

Soggetti

English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Great Britain Social life and customs 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Visual Translation in Fifteenth- Century English Manuscripts; Barn of Unity or the Dev il's Church? Salvation and Ecclesiology in Langland and the Wycliffites; Christian Poetics and Orthodox Practice: Meaning and Implication in Six Carols by James Ryman, O.F.M.; Enabled and Disabled "Myndes" in The Prick of Conscience; The Idea of Public Poetry in Lydgatean Religious Verse: Authority and the Common Voice in Devotional Literature; Nature's Yerde and Ward: Authority and Choice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls

Fabulous Women, Fables of Patronage: Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes and BL MS Additional 10304Dowel, the Proverbial, and the Vernacular: Some Versions of Pastoralia; Published Works by Penn R. Szittya; Penn R. Szittya as Scholar and Teacher; The Desire to Write Things Down: A Poetic Palimpsest on Certain Remarks by Penn Szittya; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown UniversityGs English Department. Inspired by GeorgetownGs Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry Gtraverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought,G this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment in contemporary culture when poetry finds its value increasingly challenged, Medieval Poetics and Social Practice looks to the late Middle Ag