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Macroscopic Observables, Thermodynamic Completeness and the Differentiability of Entropy

Mathematical Physics 2019-03-27 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We provide a quantum statistical basis for (a)a characterisation of a complete set of thermodynamic variables and (b) the differentiability of the entropy function of these variables

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@article{arxiv.1808.09341,
  title  = {Macroscopic Observables, Thermodynamic Completeness and the Differentiability of Entropy},
  author = {Geoffrey L. Sewell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09341},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

To be published in "Reports on Mathematical Physics"

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