Evolution of Order and Chaos: in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Schloß Elmau, Bavaria, April 26–May 1, 1982

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introductory Remarks....Pages 2-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Ursprung und Evolution des Lebens auf molekularer Ebene....Pages 6-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
The Crystallization and Selection of Dynamical Order in the Evolution of Metazoan Gene Regulation....Pages 26-35
The Synergetics of Actin-Myosin in Active Streaming and Muscle Contraction....Pages 36-49
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Pattern Formation in Magnetic Fluids....Pages 52-64
Thermoelastic Instabilities in Metals....Pages 65-73
Spatial Chemical Structures, Chemical Waves. A Review....Pages 74-99
Spontaneous Biological Pattern Formation in the Three-Dimensional Sphere. Prepatterns in Mitosis and Cytokinesis....Pages 100-111
Generation of Projections in the Developing and Regenerating Nervous System....Pages 112-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Optical Bistability, Self-Pulsing and Higher-Order Bifurcations....Pages 120-131
Benard Convection and Laser with Saturable Absorber. Oscillations and Chaos....Pages 132-145
Bistability and Chaos in NMR Systems....Pages 146-156
The Onset of Turbulence in the Wake of an Ion....Pages 157-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Diversity and Universality. Spectral Structure of Discrete Time Evolution....Pages 164-173
Onset of Chaos in Fluid Dynamics....Pages 174-182
Transition to Chaos for Maps with Positive Schwarzian Derivative....Pages 183-186
Scaling Properties of Discrete Dynamical Systems....Pages 187-196
Phase Transitions in the Homoclinic Regime of Area Preserving Diffeomorphisms....Pages 197-214
Noise Scaling of Symbolic Dynamics Entropies....Pages 215-227
Dimension, Fractal Measures, and Chaotic Dynamics....Pages 228-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Cooperative and Chaotic Effects in a Hamiltonian Model of the Free-Electron Laser....Pages 248-254
Chaos in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 255-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Criticality and the Emergence of Structure....Pages 264-269
Strange Stability in Hierarchically Coupled Neuropsychobiological Systems....Pages 270-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-287