On a Riemannian metric on contact thermodynamic spaces

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(97)84887-2MaRDI QIDQ1373569zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Mrugała

Publication date 2 April 1998

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0034-4877(97)84887-2

zbMATH Keywords

contact structurecontact termodynamic spacecurvatureLegendre submanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Review text

An almost contact structure \(\Sigma\) on a differentiable manifold \(M\) admits a Riemannian metric \(g\) that is compatible with \(\Sigma\) but is not defined uniquely. There are many examples of Riemannian metrics on contact manifolds, but they do not find any application in physics. In this interesting paper, the author presents a new Riemannian metric \(G\) on a \((2n+1)\)-dimensional contact space (thermodynamic phase space) that may be applied in physics; in particular, it may be used in equilibrium thermodynamics and in nonconservative mechanics. The condition of compatibility of \(G\) with a structure has a simple and intuitive meaning since it is defined by a natural decomposition of the tangent bundle. For thermodynamic systems, the construction of \(G\) was also motivated by statistical considerations which gave a new and deeper insight into \(G\) and its reduction to the Legendre submanifolds of the thermodynamic contact space.

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