Thermodynamics of the general diffusion process: time-reversibility and entropy production (Q1609199)

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Thermodynamics of the general diffusion process: time-reversibility and entropy production
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    Thermodynamics of the general diffusion process: time-reversibility and entropy production (English)
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    15 August 2002
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    The authors consider a class of diffusion processes with unbounded coefficients and give a theorem concerning the equivalence of reversibility, self-adjointness of the adjoint of the infinitesimal generator, a potential condition, and zero entropy production.
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    diffusion process
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    reversibility
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    elliptic operator
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