Thermodynamic reduction of contact dynamics
Abstract
A universal algorithm to derive a macroscopic dynamics from the microscopic dynamical system via the averaging process and symplecto-contact reduction was introduced by Jin-wook Lim and the second-named author in [LO23]. They apply the algorithm to derive non-equilibrium thermodynamics from the statistical mechanics utilizing the relative information entropy as a generating function of the associated thermodynamic equilibrium. In the present paper, we apply this algorithm to the contact Hamiltonian dynamical systems. We describe a procedure of obtaining a discrete set of dynamical invariants of the given contact Hamiltonian system, or more generally of a contact multi-Hamiltonian system in a canonical way by deriving a (finite-dimensional non-equilibrium) thermodynamic system. We call this reduction the thermodynamic reduction of contact dynamics.
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@article{arxiv.2412.19319,
title = {Thermodynamic reduction of contact dynamics},
author = {Hyun-Seok Do and Yong-Geun Oh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.19319},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
35 pages, v2) 41 pages, one more appendix added, references updated, subsection 9.2 rewritten