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Fluctuation symmetry leads to GENERIC equations with non-quadratic dissipation

Analysis of PDEs 2020-03-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics Probability

Abstract

We develop a formalism to discuss the properties of GENERIC systems in terms of corresponding Hamiltonians that appear in the characterization of large-deviation limits. We demonstrate how the GENERIC structure naturally arises from a certain symmetry in the Hamiltonian, which extends earlier work that has connected the large-deviation behaviour of reversible stochastic processes to the gradient-flow structure of their deterministic limit. Natural examples of application include particle systems with inertia.

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@article{arxiv.1712.10217,
  title  = {Fluctuation symmetry leads to GENERIC equations with non-quadratic dissipation},
  author = {Richard C. Kraaij and Alexandre Lazarescu and Christian Maes and Mark A. Peletier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.10217},
  year   = {2020}
}