Evolution of Order and Chaos

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I Introduction.
• Introductory Remarks.
• II Evolution.
• Ursprung und Evolution des Lebens auf molekularer Ebene.
• III Coherence in Biology.
• The Crystallization and Selection of Dynamical Order in the Evolution of Metazoan Gene Regulation.
• The Synergetics of Actin-Myosin in Active Streaming and Muscle Contraction.
• IV Instabilities and Pattern Formation in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
• Pattern Formation in Magnetic Fluids.
• Thermoelastic Instabilities in Metals.
• Spatial Chemical Structures, Chemical Waves. A Review.
• Spontaneous Biological Pattern Formation in the Three Dimensional Sphere. Prepatterns in Mitosis and Cytokinesis.
• Generation of Projections in the Developing and Regenerating Nervous System.
• V Order and Chaos in Quantum Electronics and Fluids.
• Optical Bistability, Self-Pulsing and Higher Order Bifurcations.
• Benard Convection and Laser with Saturable Absorber. Oscillations and Chaos.
• Bistability and Chaos in NMR Systems.
• The Onset of Turbulence in the Wake of an Ion.
• VI Order in Chaos.
• Diversity and Universality. Spectral Structure of Discrete Time Evolution.
• Onset of Chaos in Fluid Dynamics.
• Transition to Chaos for Maps with Positive Schwarzian Derivative.
• Scaling Properties of Discrete Dynamical Systems.
• Phase Transitions in the Homoclinic Regime of Area Preserving Diffeomorphisms.
• Noise Scaling of Symbolic Dynamics Entropies.
• Dimension, Fractal Measures, and Chaotic Dynamics.
• VII Chaos in Quantum Systems.
• Cooperative and Chaotic Effects in a Hamiltonian Model of the Free-Electron Laser.
• Chaos in Quantum Mechanics.
• VIII Emergence of Order or Chaos in Complex Systems.
• Criticality and the Emergence of Structure.
• Strange Stability in Hierarchically Coupled Neuropsychobiological Systems.
• List of Contributors.