By Andreas Greven, Gerhard Keller, Gerald Warnecke (eds.)
The suggestion of entropy arose within the actual sciences through the 19th century, fairly in thermodynamics and statistical physics, as a degree of the equilibria and evolution of thermodynamic structures. major perspectives built: the macroscopic view formulated initially by way of Carnot, Clausius, Gibbs, Planck, and Caratheodory and the microscopic method linked to Boltzmann and Maxwell. when you consider that then either ways have made attainable deep insights into the character and behaviour of thermodynamic and different microscopically unpredictable tactics. even if, the mathematical instruments used have later built independently in their unique actual history and feature resulted in a plethora of equipment and differing conventions.
The objective of this e-book is to spot the unifying threads by means of offering surveys of the makes use of and ideas of entropy in assorted components of arithmetic and the actual sciences. significant threads, emphasised in the course of the publication, are variational rules and Ljapunov functionals. The ebook starts off through delivering uncomplicated thoughts and terminology, illustrated via examples from either the macroscopic and microscopic traces of idea. In-depth surveys masking the macroscopic, microscopic and probabilistic ways stick with. half I provides a simple creation from the perspectives of thermodynamics and likelihood idea. half II collects surveys that examine the macroscopic procedure of continuum mechanics and physics. half III offers with the microscopic method exposing the position of entropy as an idea in chance idea, specifically within the research of the big time habit of stochastic strategies and within the learn of qualitative homes of types in statistical physics. eventually partly IV functions in dynamical platforms, ergodic and data thought are presented.
The chapters have been written to supply as cohesive an account as attainable, making the ebook obtainable to a variety of graduate scholars and researchers. Any scientist facing structures that convey entropy will locate the ebook a useful reduction to their understanding.
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A natural candidate for the information contained in the signal is then the minimal expected length lp(JL) = inf{JL(# f) : f binary prefix code forE} of a binary prefix code for E. This quantity is already closely related to H (JL), but the relationship becomes nicer if one assumes that the random signal forms a memoryless source, in that the random letters from E are repeated independently, and one encodes signal words of length n (which are distributed according to the product measure JLn). In this setting, lp(JLn)/n is the information per signal letter, and in the limit n --+ oo one obtains the following theorem.
12) of which the additive constant was conveniently dropped. The argument of the logarithm can be interpreted as the number of possibilities to realize a distribution {Nxp} of atoms in a gas. 13) ENTROPY: A SUBTLE CONCEPT IN THERMODYNAMICS 25 where W is now the number of possibilities to realize any distribution appropriate to any body of many individual elements. 13), which Boltzmann, incidentally, never wrote down, but which is engraved on the headstone at his grave. Having mentioned quantum mechanics, I should explain that setting the number of points in dx dp equal to Y dx dp is tantamount to the quantization of phase space.
That is, writing v (g) for the integral of some bounded measurable function g : E --+ JRd with respect 44 CHAPTER 3 to v, we assume that e = {v : v(g) =a} for suitable a we consider the constrained variational problem D(v I I JL) ='=min, E Rd. In other words, v(g) =a. In this case one can use a convex Lagrange multiplier calculus as follows. For any bounded measurable function f : E --+ R let P(f) =log JL(ef) be the log-Laplace functional of JL. e. Legendre-Fenchel transforms) of each other; cf.
