Hard balls gas and Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded above

zbMath0995.37024MaRDI QIDQ1126774

Dmitri Burago

Publication date: 6 August 1998

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/225652

zbMATH Keywords

geometry of non-positively curved length spacestheory of semi-dispersing billiard systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) (n)-body problems (70F10) Ergodic theory (37A99) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35) Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-02)

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