Special Matrices of Mathematical Physics: Stochastic, Circulant, and Bell Matrices

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World Scientific, 2001 - 323 páginas
This book expounds three special kinds of matrices that are of physical interest, centering on physical examples. Stochastic matrices describe dynamical systems of many different types, involving (or not) phenomena like transience, dissipation, ergodicity, nonequilibrium, and hypersensitivity to initial conditions. The main characteristic is growth by agglomeration, as in glass formation. Circulants are the building blocks of elementary Fourier analysis and provide a natural gateway to quantum mechanics and noncommutative geometry. Bell polynomials offer closed expressions for many formulas concerning Lie algebra invariants, differential geometry and real gases, and their matrices are instrumental in the study of chaotic mappings.

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STOCHASTIC MATRICES
19
CIRCULANT MATRICES
79
BELL MATRICES
147
Appendix A Formulary
283
Bibliography
309
Index
315
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