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Spectra of Liouville operators

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Spectra of the generators of time translations (“Liouville operators”) on representation spaces determined by thermodynamic equilibrium states are compared and their nature is investigated.

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Gerrit ten Brinke & Marinus Winnink

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Brinke, G.t., Winnink, M. Spectra of Liouville operators. Commun.Math. Phys. 51, 135–150 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01609344

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