Geoffrey Sewell

Hyperbolic Quantum Flows and the Question of Quantum Chaos

Hyperbolic flows, as formulated by Anosov, are the prototype of classical dynamic systems that evolve chaotically. In this talk I shall discuss their quantum counterparts, as formulated by Emch, Narnhofer, Sewell and Thirring within the operator algebraic setting of quantum theory; and I shall discuss their bearing on the question of quantum chaos.