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Advanced Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology - Vol. 10
THE CHAOTIC UNIVERSE
Proceedings of the Second ICRA Network Workshop
Rome, Pescara, Italy 1 - 5 February 1999
edited by V G Gurzadyan & R Ruffini (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
This unique volume is a collection of papers on various problems in astrophysics and cosmology — from planetary motion to the arrow of time — that are closely linked by the common spirit, technique and methodology of chaos.
Contents:
- The Arrow of Time (I Prigogine)
- Structure Formation on Scales of
Galaxy Clusters and Beyond (L-Z Fang)
- The Complexity of Our Curved Universe (V G Gurzadyan)
- Internal Dynamics of Globular Clusters (G Meylan)
- Application of Frequency Map Analysis in Galactic Dynamics (J Laskar)
- Thermodynamics and Gravitation: From Glasses to Black Holes and Globular Star Clusters (Th M Nieuwenhuizen)
- Astrophysical Fractals: Interstellar Medium and Galaxies (F Combes)
- Chaos in Cosmological Models with a Scalar Field (A Yu Kamenshchik & I M Khalatnikov)
- Chaos and Order in a Finite Universe (J D Barrow & J Levin)
- Porosities and Dimensions of Measures Satisfying the Double Condition (J-P Eckmann et al.)
- On Alternative Formulations of the Cosmological Principle (R Ruffini)
- and other papers
Readership: Astrophysicists and cosmologists.
| 684pp |
Pub. date: May 2000 |
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