TRANSPORT-PROPERTIES, LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS, AND ENTROPY PER UNIT TIME

For dynamical systems of large spatial extension giving rise to transport phenomena, like the Lorentz gas, we establish a relationship between the transport coefficient and the difference between the positive Lyapunov exponent and the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy per unit time, characterizing the fractal and chaotic repeller of trapped trajectories. Consequences for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics are discussed. © 1990 The American Physical Society.