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Velocity and Entropy of Motion in Periodic Potentials

Andreas Knauf

Séminaire Équations aux dérivées partielles

This is a report on recent joint work with J. Asch, and with T. Hudetz and F. Benatti. We consider classical, quantum and semiclassical motion in periodic potentials and prove various results on the distribution of asymptotic velocities. The Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and its quantum generalization, the Connes-Narnhofer-Thirring entropy, of the single particle and of a gas of noninteracting particles are related.

The n -centre problem of celestial mechanics for large energies

Andreas Knauf — 2002

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We consider the classical three-dimensional motion in a potential which is the sum of n attracting or repelling Coulombic potentials. Assuming a non-collinear configuration of the n centres, we find a universal behaviour for all energies E above a positive threshold. Whereas for n = 1 there are no bounded orbits, and for n = 2 there is just one closed orbit, for n 3 the bounded orbits form a Cantor set. We analyze the symbolic dynamics and estimate Hausdorff dimension and topological entropy of this hyperbolic set....

Maximizing multi–information

Nihat AyAndreas Knauf — 2006

Kybernetika

Stochastic interdependence of a probability distribution on a product space is measured by its Kullback–Leibler distance from the exponential family of product distributions (called multi-information). Here we investigate low-dimensional exponential families that contain the maximizers of stochastic interdependence in their closure. Based on a detailed description of the structure of probability distributions with globally maximal multi-information we obtain our main result: The exponential family...

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