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TMF, 2008 Volume 157, Number 1, Pages 141–148 (Mi tmf6269)

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Thermodynamics from the differential geometry standpoint

V. P. Pavlova, V. M. Sergeevb

a Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
b Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Russia

Abstract: We study the differential-geometric structure of the space of thermodynamic states in equilibrium thermodynamics. We demonstrate that this space is a foliation of codimension two and find variables in which the foliation fibers are flat. We show that we can introduce a symplectic structure on this space: the external derivative of the $1$-form of the heat source, which has the form of the skew-symmetric product $dT\wedge dS$ in the found variables. The entropy $S$ then plays the role of the Lagrange function (or Hamiltonian) in mechanics, completely determining the thermodynamic system.

Keywords: symplectic structure, space of states, dynamical principle.

Received: 19.11.2007

DOI: 10.4213/tmf6269


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2008, 157:1, 1484–1490

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