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Issue 2 (2002)

Special issue containing papers presented at the meeting "Inhomogeneous Random Systems (Rapidity of Convergence to Equilibrium or Stationary States, Coarse Graining in Statistical Mechanics with Long Range Potentials)" held at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, 23-24 January 2001. Editors Ellen Saada, Thierry Gobron and Francois Dunlop.

ARTICLES

Finite-Dimensional Functional Analysis Applied to Transfer Operators for Infinite-Dimensional Maps
V. Baladi (pages 149 - 154)
Computing the Rate of Decay of Correlations in Expanding and Hyperbolic Systems
C. Liverani (pages 155 - 162)
Stochastic Hamiltonian Systems: Exponential Convergence to the Invariant Measure, and Discretization by the Implicit Euler Scheme
D. Talay (pages 163 - 198)
Geometric Ergodicity of Some Hypo-Elliptic Diffusions for Particle Motions
J.C. Mattingly, A.M. Stuart (pages 199 - 214)
Disks on a Sphere and Two-Dimensional Glasses
W. Krauth (pages 215 - 219)
Approach to Equilibrium for Kac Master Equation
E. Janvresse (pages 221 - 232)
Hypercontractivity of Hamilton - Jacobi Equations
S.G. Bobkov, I. Gentil, M. Ledoux (pages 233 - 235)
On the Trend to Equilibrium for Kinetic Equations
C. Villani (pages 237 - 250)
Relaxation to Equilibrium of Spin Exchange Dynamics for Lattice Gases
N. Cancrini (pages 251 - 270)
The Liquid and Vapor Phases in Particle Models with Kac Potentials
F. Baffioni, I. Merola, E. Presutti (pages 271 - 318)
On the van der Waals Theory of Surface Tension
T. Bodineau (pages 319 - 338)
Free Energy Functionals in the Mesoscopic Description of Phase Transitions
L. Triolo (pages 339 - 350)
Statistical Mechanics of Nonlinear Elasticity
O. Penrose (pages 351 - 364)
Dynamic Fluctuations for Kac and Related Models
L. Bertini (pages 365 - 381)
Cluster Expansions of Small Contours in Abstract Pirogov - Sinai Models
M. Zahradnik