Fully Chaotic Maps and Broken Time Symmetry

Providing an introduction to a new approach to the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of chaotic systems, this book shows how the dynamical problem in fully chaotic maps may be solved on the level of evolving probability densities. On this level, time evolution is governed by the Frobenius-Perron operator. Several techniques for the construction of explicit spectral decompositions are given, such as those constructed in generalized function spaces. These generalized spectral decompositions are of special interest for systems with invertible trajectory dynamics, as on the statistical level the new solutions break time symmetry and allow for a rigorous understanding of irreversibility. Systems ranging from the simple one-dimensional Bernoulli map to an invertible model of deterministic diffusion are treated in detail.