Robustness of the second law of thermodynamics under generalizations of the maximum entropy method
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
It is shown that the laws of thermodynamics are extremely robust under generalizations of the form of entropy. Using the Bregman-type relative entropy, the Clausius inequality is proved to be always valid. This implies that thermodynamics is highly universal and does not rule out consistent generalization of the maximum entropy method.
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@article{arxiv.0708.1616,
title = {Robustness of the second law of thermodynamics under generalizations of the maximum entropy method},
author = {Sumiyoshi Abe and Stefan Thurner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1616},
year = {2009}
}
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