FM 97-4

Author: G. Gallavotti

Title: Breakdown and regeneration of time reversal
symmetry in nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Abstract: A review and non technical exposition of
recent studies on the relevance of time reversal, on its
spontaneous breakdowns, and on its possible resurgence
as a weaker symmetry that still anticommutes with time
evolution.

Comment: A review talk given at the meeting in honor of
Raoul Gatto, Ginevra, 17 jan 1997.

Keywords: Time reversal, Reversibility, Irreversibility,
Chaos, Nonequilibrium, Statistical Mechanics, Dynamical
Systems

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