Irreversibility and Causality Semigroups and Rigged Hilbert Spaces /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bohm, Arno (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Doebner, Heinz-Dietrich (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kielanowski, Piotr (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 504
• Subjects: Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Physics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum physics.; Analysis.; Complex Systems.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.
• Physical Description: XIX, 388 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540697251
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0106772

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.