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This paper investigates scaling symmetry in thermodynamics by unifying constrained Hamiltonian dynamics with symplectic and contact geometries. Through the mathematical processes of contactization and symplectization, we demonstrate that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 M. C. Baldiotti , R. Fresneda

The contact geometric structure of the thermodynamic phase space is used to introduce a novel symplectic structure on the tangent bundle of the equilibrium space. Moreover, it turns out that the equilibrium space can be interpreted as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Luis Aragon-Munoz , Hernando Quevedo

In a recent article we have introduced Friedmann thermodynamics, where certain geometric parameters in Friedmann models are treated like their thermodynamic counterparts (temperature, entropy, Gibbs potential etc.). This model has the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-02 Selcuk S. Bayin

Contact Geometry is an odd dimensional analogue of Symplectic Geometry. This vague idea can actually be formalized in a rather precise way by means of a Symplectic-to-Contact Dictionary. The aim of this review paper is discussing the basic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Fabrizio Pugliese , Giovanni Sparano , Luca Vitagliano

A generalized entropy arising in the context of superstatistics is obtained for an ideal gas. The curvature scalar associated to the thermodynamic space generated by this modified entropy is calculated using two formalisms of the geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-18 J. L. López , O. Obregón , J. Torres-Arenas

We review the main aspects of geometrothermodynamics, a formalism that uses contact geometry and Riemannian geometry to describe the properties of thermodynamic systems. We show how to handle in a geometric way the invariance of classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

Since the 1970s contact geometry has been recognized as an appropriate framework for the geometric formulation of the state properties of thermodynamic systems, without, however, addressing the formulation of non-equilibrium thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Arjan van der Schaft , Bernhard Maschke

In the present work we develop a strictly Hamiltonian approach to Thermodynamics. A thermodynamic description based on symplectic geometry is introduced, where all thermodynamic processes can be described within the framework of Analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-02 M. C. Baldiotti , R. Fresneda , C. Molina

This manuscript introduces novel approaches to three phenomena. First, we extend the algebraic formulation of kinetic theory within the contact framework by making explicit the gauge freedom, thereby obtaining a formulation in which the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Begüm Ateşli , Oğul Esen , Miroslav Grmela , Michal Pavelka

This paper presents a rigorous treatment of the concept of extensivity in equilibrium thermodynamics from a geometric point of view. This is achieved by endowing the manifold of equilibrium states of a system with a smooth atlas that is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Miguel Ángel García-Ariza

Thermodynamics provides a unified perspective of thermodynamic properties of various substances. To formulate thermodynamics in the language of sophisticated mathematics, thermodynamics is described by a variety of differential geometries,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Shin-itiro Goto

We show that thermodynamics can be formulated naturally from the intrinsic geometry of phase space alone-without postulating an ensemble, which instead emerges from the geometric structure itself. Within this formulation, phase transitions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Loris Di Cairano

The formal structure of geometrical thermodynamics is reviewed with particular emphasis on the geometry of equilibria submanifolds. On these submanifolds thermodynamic metrics are defined as the Hessian of thermodynamic potentials. Links…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuel Santoro , Albert S. Benight

In the present work, we discuss how the functional form of thermodynamic observables can be deduced from the geometric properties of subsets of phase space. The geometric quantities taken into account are mainly extrinsic curvatures of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-01 Ghofrane Bel-Hadj-Aissa , Matteo Gori , Vittorio Penna , Giulio Pettini , Roberto Franzosi

It has been shown that contact geometry is the proper framework underlying classical thermodynamics and that thermodynamic fluctuations are captured by an additional metric structure related to Fisher's Information Matrix. In this work we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 A. Bravetti , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo , F. Nettel

The theory of $G$-structures provides us with a unified framework for a large class of geometric structures, including symplectic, complex and Riemannian structures, as well as foliations and many others. Surprisingly, contact geometry -…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Alfonso G. Tortorella , Luca Vitagliano , Ori Yudilevich

We present the fundamentals of geometrothermodynamics, an approach to study the properties of thermodynamic systems in terms of differential geometric concepts. It is based, on the one hand, upon the well-known contact structure of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hernando Quevedo

This paper gives a concise, mathematically rigorous description of phenomenological equilibrium thermodynamics for single-phase systems in the absence of chemical reactions and external forces. The present approach is similar to that of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-22 Arnold Neumaier

We introduce a new class of nonlocal kinetic equations and nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations associated with an effective generalized thermodynamical formalism. These equations have a rich physical and mathematical structure that can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In this paper we survey several intersection and non-intersection phenomena appearing in the realm of symplectic topology. We discuss their implications and finally outline some new relations of the subject to algebraic geometry.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Biran
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