in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Schloß Elmau, Bavaria, April 26-May 1, 1982
edited by Hermann Haken.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1982
(VIII, 290 pages).
Springer series in synergetics, 17.
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.