Change, time and information geometry
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Publication:6468435
DOI10.1063/1.1381872arXivmath-ph/0008018MaRDI QIDQ6468435FDOQ6468435
Publication date: 7 August 2000
Abstract: Dynamics, the study of change, is normally the subject of mechanics. Whether the chosen mechanics is ``fundamental and deterministic or ``phenomenological and stochastic, all changes are described relative to an external time. Here we show that once we define what we are talking about, namely, the system, its states and a criterion to distinguish among them, there is a single, unique, and natural dynamical law for irreversible processes that is compatible with the principle of maximum entropy. In this alternative dynamics changes are described relative to an internal, ``intrinsic time which is a derived, statistical concept defined and measured by change itself. Time is quantified change.
Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Entropy in general topology (54C70)
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