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Uspekhi Mat. Nauk, 2014 Volume 69, Issue 6(420), Pages 45–80 (Mi rm9635)

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Entropy in the sense of Boltzmann and Poincaré

V. V. Vedenyapina, S. Z. Adzhievb

a Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences
b Moscow State University

Abstract: The $H$-theorem is proved for generalized equations of chemical kinetics, and important physical examples of such generalizations are considered: a discrete model of the quantum kinetic equations (the Uehling–Uhlenbeck equations) and a quantum Markov process (a quantum random walk). The time means are shown to coincide with the Boltzmann extremals for these equations and for the Liouville equation.
Bibliography: 41 titles.

Keywords: Boltzmann equation, $H$-theorem, entropy, conservation laws, discrete model, Boltzmann extremal, Liouville equation, time mean, Cesáro mean, Markov chains, variational principle.

UDC: 517.958

MSC: Primary 60K30, 80A30; Secondary 60J27, 82C22, 82C40, 92E20

Received: 13.10.2013

DOI: 10.4213/rm9635


 English version:
Russian Mathematical Surveys, 2014, 69:6, 995–1029

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