Legendre submanifolds in contact manifolds as attractors and geometric nonequilibrium thermodynamics

DOI10.1063/1.4927226zbMATH Open1327.82072arXiv1412.5780OpenAlexW3104789338MaRDI QIDQ5500761FDOQ5500761

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Publication date: 10 August 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been proposed that equilibrium thermodynamics is described on Legendre submanifolds in contact geometry. It is shown in this paper that Legendre submanifolds embedded in a contact manifold can be expressed as attractors in phase space for a certain class of contact Hamiltonian vector fields. By giving a physical interpretation that points outside the Legendre submanifold can represent nonequilibrium states of thermodynamic variables, in addition to that points of a given Legendre submanifold can represent equilibrium states of the variables, this class of contact Hamiltonian vector fields is physically interpreted as a class of relaxation processes, in which thermodynamic variables achieve an equilibrium state from a nonequilibrium state through a time evolution, a typical nonequilibrium phenomenon. Geometric properties of such vector fields on contact manifolds are characterized after introducing a metric tensor field on a contact manifold. It is also shown that a contact manifold and a strictly convex function induce a lower dimensional dually flat space used in information geometry where a geometrization of equilibrium statistical mechanics is constructed. Legendre duality on contact manifolds is explicitly stated throughout.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5780

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldscontact manifoldsHessian manifoldsLegendre transformLegendre submanifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

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