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A functorial semi-norm on singular homology is a collection of semi-norms on the singular homology groups of spaces such that continuous maps between spaces induce norm-decreasing maps in homology. Functorial semi-norms can be used to give…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Diarmuid Crowley , Clara Loeh

Entropy, its production, and its change in a dynamical system can be understood from either a fully stochastic dynamic description or from a deterministic dynamics exhibiting chaotic behavior. By taking the former approach based on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Hong Qian , Zhongwei Shen

For \Gamma a countable amenable group consider those actions of \Gamma as measure-preserving transformations of a standard probability space, written as {T_\gamma}_{\gamma \in \Gamma} acting on (X,{\cal F}, \mu). We say…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Daniel J. Rudolph , Benjamin Weiss

In earlier work we presented a foundation for the Second Law of Classical Thermodynamics in terms of the Entropy Principle. More precisely, we provided an empirically accessible axiomatic derivation of an entropy function defined on all…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Elliott H. Lieb , Jakob Yngvason

For a fixed flow-based generative model under a small inference budget, sample quality can depend strongly on where the sampler spends its few function evaluations. Flow matching and Schr\"odinger bridges define probability paths, yet their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bruno Trentini , Dejan Stancevic , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong , Luca Ambrogioni

Different notions of entropy play a fundamental role in the classical theory of dynamical systems. Unlike many other concepts used to analyze autonomous dynamics, both measure-theoretic and topological entropy can be extended quite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Christoph Kawan

We study the multiplicative version of the classical Furstenberg's filtering problem, where instead of the sum $\mathbf{X}+\mathbf{Y}$ one considers the product $\mathbf{X}\cdot \mathbf{Y}$ ($\mathbf{X}$ and $\mathbf{Y}$ are bilateral,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Joanna Kułaga-Przymus , Michał Lemańczyk

Barcode entropy is an invariant of a Hamiltonian system -- a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism or a Reeb flow -- measuring its Morse or Floer theoretic complexity at a small scale. More specifically, it is the exponential growth rate of the number…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erman Cineli , Viktor L. Ginzburg , Basak Z. Gurel , Marco Mazzucchelli

In the present paper we study the thermodynamical properties of finitely generated continuous subgroup actions. We address a notion of topological entropy and pressure functions that does not depend on the growth rate of the semigroup and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Fagner B. Rodrigues , Paulo Varandas

We derive a functional for the entropy contributed by any microscopic degrees of freedom as arising from their measurable pair correlations. Applicable both in and out of equilibrium, this functional yields the maximum entropy which a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-17 Benjamin Sorkin , Joshua Ricouvier , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

We examine the {combinatorial} or {probabilistic} definition ("Boltzmann's principle") of the entropy or cross-entropy function $H \propto \ln \mathbb{W}$ or $D \propto - \ln \mathbb{P}$, where $\mathbb{W}$ is the statistical weight and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert K. Niven

Entropy increase is fundamentally related to the breaking of time-reversal symmetry. By adding the 'extra dimension' associated with thermodynamic forces, we extend that discrete symmetry to a continuous symmetry for the dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-28 Aaron Beyen , Christian Maes

A definable set $X$ in the first-order language of rings defines a family of random vectors: for each finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, let the distribution be supported and uniform on the $\mathbb{F}_q$-rational points of $X$. We employ results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Tobias Boege

The concept of independence entropy for symbolic dynamical systems was introduced in [LMP13]. This notion of entropy measures the extent to which one can freely insert symbols in positions without violating the constraints defined by the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Bashir Abu Khalil

In analogy to the topological entropy for continuous endomorphisms of totally disconnected locally compact groups, we introduce a notion of topological entropy for continuous endomorphisms of locally linearly compact vector spaces. We study…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Ilaria Castellano , Anna Giordano Bruno

By using entropy and entropy production, we calculate the steady flux of some phenomena. The method we use is a competition method, $S_S/\tau+\sigma={\it maximum}$, where $S_S$ is system entropy, $\sigma$ is entropy production and $\tau$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-26 Yong-Jun Zhang

We consider shift spaces in which elements of the alphabet may overlap nontransitively. We define a notion of entropy for such spaces, give several techniques for computing lower bounds for it, and show that it is equal to a limit of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-11-16 Fabio Drucker , David Richeson , Jim Wiseman

A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

In this paper, we extend the concept of generalized entropy to uniform spaces, allowing computations beyond metrizable settings. We apply this to parabolic dynamics - systems with a unique fixed point uniformly attracting all compact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Frederico A. C. L. Marinho , Hellen de Paula , Lucas H. R. de Souza

The aim of this manuscript is to study some local properties of the topological entropy of a free semigroup action. In order to do that we focus on the set of entropy points of a free semigroup action, show that this set carries the full…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Fagner B. Rodrigues , Thomas Jacobus , Marcus V. Silva