On the statistical mechanics of non-Hamiltonian systems: the generalized Liouville equation, entropy, and time-dependent metrics

DOI10.1023/B:JOMC.0000007811.79716.4dzbMath1049.53064MaRDI QIDQ1424883

Gregory S. Ezra

Publication date: 15 March 2004

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Chemistry (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

differential forms; ergodic theory; non-Hamiltonian dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

82C03: Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics

Related Items

Particle capture by expanding droplets: effects of inner diffusion, Contact Hamiltonian Systems for Probability Distribution Functions and Expectation Variables: A Study Based on a Class of Master Equations, On the geometry and entropy of non-Hamiltonian phase space, The mean-field limit of the Cucker-Smale model on complete Riemannian manifolds, The fractional kinetic Einstein-Vlasov system and its implications in Bianchi spacetimes geometry, Relativistic non-Hamiltonian mechanics, Last multipliers on Lie algebroids, Some aspects of the Liouville equation in mathematical physics and statistical mechanics, Entropy variation and Lyapunov exponents of a nonequilibrium system, Contact geometric descriptions of vector fields on dually flat spaces and their applications in electric circuit models and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics