A higher Boltzmann distribution

DOI10.1007/S41468-017-0006-9MaRDI QIDQ1659255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael J. Catanzaro, Vladimir Y. Chernyak, John R. Klein

Publication date 15 August 2018

Published in Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06775

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann distributioncombinatorial Hodge theorycombinatorial LaplacianCW complexspanning co-tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Flows in graphs (05C21) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Chain complexes (category-theoretic aspects), dg categories (18G35) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Numerical solutions to overdetermined systems, pseudoinverses (65F20) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40)

Abstract: We characterize the classical Boltzmann distribution as the unique solution to a certain combinatorial Hodge theory problem in homological degree zero on a finite graph. By substituting for the graph a CW complex and a degree d, we are able to define, by direct analogy, a higher dimensional Boltzmann distribution as a certain (d-1)-cycle on the real cellular chain complex which is characterized by appropriate constraints. We then give an explicit formula for this cycle. We explain how this circle of ideas relates to the authors' Higher Kirchhoff Network Theorem. We also give an improved version of the authors' Higher Matrix-Tree Theorems.

Review text

The paper provides a further different perspective which leads to single out the classical Boltzmann distribution, though in a very abstract framework which cannot be easily related to standard formulations or definitions. In particular, it is shown how it emerges as the unique solution to a combinatorial Hodge theory problem in homological degree zero on a finite graph.

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