On the entropy minimization problem in statistical mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2016.10.020MaRDI QIDQ2408657zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Constantin Zălinescu

Publication date 12 October 2017

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02527

zbMATH Keywords

value functionstatistical mechanicsconjugate functionentropy minimizationseries of convex functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Nonlinear programming (90C30) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05)

Abstract: In the works on Statistical Mechanics and Statistical Physics, when deriving the distribution of particles of ideal gases, one uses the method of Lagrange multipliers in a formal way. In this paper we treat rigorously this problem for Bose--Einstein, Fermi--Dirac and Maxwell--Boltzmann entropies and present a complete study in the case of the Maxwell--Boltzmann entropy. Our approach is based on recent results on series of convex functions.

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