The Information Geometry of Chaos

In this book, the author presents a new theoreticalinformation-geometric framework (IGAC, InformationGeometrodynamical Approach to Chaos) suitable tocharacterize chaotic dynamical behavior of arbitrarycomplex systems. Special focus is devoted to theconventional Riemannian geometrodynamical approach tochaos and to the Zurek-Paz quantum chaos criterion oflinear entropy growth. The major elements of the IGACand the novel notion of information geometrodynamicalentropy (IGE) are introduced by studying two simplephysical applications. Finally, concluding remarksemphasizing strengths and weak points of this novelapproach are presented and possible further researchdirections are addressed. At this stage of itsdevelopment, IGAC remains an ambitious unifyinginformation-geometric theoretical construct for thestudy of chaotic dynamics with several unsolvedproblems. However, based on the author's recentfindings, IGAC already provides an interesting,innovative and potentially powerful way to study andunderstand the very important and challengingproblems of classical and quantum chaos.

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Dr. Carlo Cafaro is a Lecturer at the Department of Physics, University at Albany, State University of New York. He received his graduate education in Theoretical Physics at the University of Pisa, Italy, before receiving his Ph.D. in Physics at SUNY at Albany.