The probabilistic-informational opacity functional,Jaynes's principle,and distances to equilibrium of an evolving system |
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Authors: | François Schächter |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France;(2) National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
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Abstract: | A new probabilistic-informational concept, earlier constructed by Mugur-Schächter, is further developed. Associated with Jaynes's principle, this concept permits one to define a measure for the distance between the state of a system evolving under stable constraints and the equilibrium with these constraints. An illustration is given for a gas evolving in a thermostated box. It appears that the free energy of the gas estimates the distance to equilibrium, the estimation being defined in abstract informational-probabilistic terms. |
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