Liouville dynamics and the conservation of classical information

A R Plastino1, A Daffertshofer

  • 1Physics Department, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa. arplastino@maple.up.ac.za

Physical Review Letters
|November 5, 2004
PubMed

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