Entropy flux and Lagrange multipliers: information theory and thermodynamics
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We analyze the relation between the nonequilibrium Lagrange multipliers used in information theory and those used in Liu's technique to exploit the entropy inequality. We observe that there is not a complete equivalence between Liu's technique and information theory.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811383,
title = {Entropy flux and Lagrange multipliers: information theory and thermodynamics},
author = {Raquel Dominguez-Cascante and David Jou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811383},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in Open Systems and Information Dynamics, issue 5.4