Time-reversal symmetry, Poincaré recurrence, irreversibility, and the entropic arrow of time: From mechanics to system thermodynamics

DOI10.1016/j.nonrwa.2006.10.002zbMath1157.37339MaRDI QIDQ924580

Vijay Sekhar Chellaboina, Sergey G. Nersesov, Wassim M. Haddad

Publication date: 16 May 2008

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis. Real World Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nonrwa.2006.10.002

zbMATH Keywords

entropy; thermodynamics; reversibility; semistability; Hamiltonian mechanics; irreversibility; Poincaré recurrence; arrow of time; time-reversal symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70H05: Hamilton's equations

37N20: Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics)

82C03: Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics

37N05: Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics

82C35: Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory

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