Relativistic like structure of classical thermodynamics

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-1881-9MaRDI QIDQ2353809zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hernando Quevedo, Alberto Sánchez, Alejandro Vázquez

Publication date 9 July 2015

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0222

zbMATH Keywords

geometrothermodynamicsadiabatic conerelativistic structurethermodynamic geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We analyze in the context of geometrothermodynamics a Legendre invariant metric structure in the equilibrium space of an ideal gas. We introduce the concept of thermodynamic geodesic as a succession of points, each corresponding to a state of equilibrium, so that the resulting curve represents a quasi-static process. A rigorous geometric structure is derived in which the thermodynamic geodesics at a given point split the equilibrium space into two disconnected regions separated by adiabatic geodesics. This resembles the causal structure of special relativity, which we use to introduce the concept of adiabatic cone for thermodynamic systems. This result might be interpreted as an alternative indication of the inter-relationship between relativistic physics and classical thermodynamics.

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