Histories, dynamical laws, and initial conditions \(-\) invariance under time-reversibility and its failure in Markov processes, with application to the second law of thermodynamics and the past hypothesis

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.08.004zbMath1435.60054OpenAlexW2972551488MaRDI QIDQ2186319

Elliott Sober

Publication date: 9 June 2020

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.08.004

zbMATH Keywords

entropysecond law of thermodynamicsMarkov processpast hypothesistime-reversal invariancetime-translational invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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