Monotoniegesetze der statistischen Theorie der Nichtgleichgewichte

Two fundamental inequalities in the theory of nonequilibrium systems are the second law in its generalized form stating that entropy-production is always positive and the so called thermodynamic passivity relation. In a statistical theory these inequalities can be derived under very general conditions. Thus certain results contained in a preceding paper¹ are put on a new basis and shown to be independent of the Markovian property of the stochastic laws of motion. In the new formulation the results refer especially to systems under the influence of an environment variable in time. (4.4) ist die bekannte Formulierung der Passivitätseigenschaft des Netzwerkes.