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A dynamical estimate is given for the Boltzmann entropy of the Universe, under the simplifying assumptions provided by Newtonian cosmology. We first model the cosmological fluid as the probability fluid of a quantum-mechanical system. Next,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 D. Cabrera , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro

We tighten the Entropy Power Inequality (EPI) when one of the random summands is Gaussian. Our strengthening is closely connected to the concept of strong data processing for Gaussian channels and generalizes the (vector extension of)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Thomas A. Courtade

The expression for entropy sometimes appears mysterious - as it often is asserted without justification. This short manuscript contains a discussion of the underlying assumptions behind entropy as well as simple derivation of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Jonathon Shlens

We study fluctuations of entropy production for a charged Brownian particle confined in a harmonic trap and driven out of equilibrium by crossed electric and magnetic fields. The magnetic field is constant and perpendicular to the plane of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-19 L. C. González-Morales , I. Pérez Castillo , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

These lectures deal with the problem of inductive inference, that is, the problem of reasoning under conditions of incomplete information. Is there a general method for handling uncertainty? Or, at least, are there rules that could in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-09-08 Ariel Caticha

In 2021, J.~Agler and J.~E. McCarthy proposed a two-step programme toward the celebrated Krzy\.z conjecture. The first step is to prove an entropy conjecture for polynomials whose zeros all lie on the unit circle; the second is to establish…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Jialin Lei , Teng Zhang

We investigate the entropy $H(\mu,t)$ of a probability measure $\mu$ along the heat flow and more precisely we seek for closed algebraic representations of its derivatives. Provided that $\mu$ admits moments of any order, it is indeed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Paul Mansanarez , Guillaume Poly , Yvik Swan

The following is a concise exposition of the conjecture and three of its proofs for the case of positive entropy by D. Rudolph [22] , B. Host [14] and W. Parry [21]. A simpler theorem of R. Lyons [19] - preceding them - is also presented…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Matan Tal

We consider general systems of ordinary differential equations with monotonic Gibbs entropy, and introduce an entropic scheme that simply imposes an entropy fix after every time step of any existing time integrator. It is proved that in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Zhenning Cai , Jingwei Hu , Yang Kuang , Bo Lin

We conjecture the following entropy bound to be valid in all space-times admitted by Einstein's equation: Let A be the area of any two-dimensional surface. Let L be a hypersurface generated by surface-orthogonal null geodesics with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Raphael Bousso

The dynamics of an unique type of clock mechanism known as grasshopper escapement is investigated with the aim of evaluating its accuracy in a noisy environment. It is demonstrated that the clock's precision scales linearly with the rate of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 David Ziemkiewicz

There are several versions of Bell's inequalities, proved in different contexts, using different sets of assumptions. The discussions of their experimental violation often disregard some required assumptions and use loose formulations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Angel G. Valdenebro

A heuristic entropic-gravity derivation has previously been given of the gravitational two-body force of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). Here, it is shown that also another characteristic of MOND can be recovered, namely, the external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-05 F. R. Klinkhamer

Similar to the Berry conjecture of quantum chaos we consider elastic analogue which incorporates longitudinal and transverse elastic displacements with corresponding wave vectors. Based on that we derive the correlation functions for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitrii N. Maksimov , Almas F. Sadreev

Using the author's inversion formula for automorphisms of the Weyl algebras with polynomial coefficients and the bound on its degree a slightly shorter (algebraic) proof is given of the result of A. Belov-Kanel and M. Kontsevich that the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. V. Bavula

The main result of this paper is a proof using real analysis of the monotonicity of the topological entropy for the family of quadratic maps, sometimes called Milnor's Monotonicity Conjecture. In contrast, the existing proofs rely in one…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-13 José M. Amigó , Angel Giménez

Entropy and energy are found to be closely tied on our quest for quantum gravity. We point out an interesting connection between the recently proposed outer entropy, a coarse-grained entropy defined for a compact spacetime domain motivated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-07 Jinzhao Wang

We study Poincar\'e recurrence from a purely geometrical viewpoint. We prove that the metric entropy is given by the exponential growth rate of return times to dynamical balls. This is the geometrical counterpart of Ornstein-Weiss theorem.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Paulo Varandas

We consider stationary ergodic processes indexed by $\mathbb Z$ or $\mathbb Z^n$ whose finite dimensional marginals have laws which are absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. We define an entropy theory for these continuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Hamdan , W. Parry , J. -P. Thouvenot

We prove the Shepp--Olkin conjecture, which states that the entropy of the sum of independent Bernoulli random variables is concave in the parameters of the individual random variables. Our proof is a refinement of an argument previously…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Erwan Hillion , Oliver Johnson