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A geometric description of blackbody-like systems in thermodynamic equilibrium

Statistical Mechanics 2025-06-03 v1

Abstract

Riemannian and contact geometry formalisms are used to study the fundamental equation of electromagnetic radiation-like systems, obeying a Stefan-Boltzmann's-like law. The vanishing of metric determinant is used for classifying what kind of systems can not represent a possible generalization of blackbody-like systems. In addition, thermodynamic curvature scalar R\mathcal{R} is evaluated for a thermodynamic metric, giving R=0\mathcal{R}=0, which validates the non-interaction hypothesis stating that the scalar curvature vanishes for non-interacting systems.

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@article{arxiv.1712.01380,
  title  = {A geometric description of blackbody-like systems in thermodynamic equilibrium},
  author = {Victor Alcides Guzmán Rodríguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01380},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, presented at the XXX Jornadas Venezolanas de Matem\'atica