On Minimization and Maximization of Entropy in Various Disciplines

DOI10.1137/S0040585X9798052XzbMath1075.94007MaRDI QIDQ4830865

V. P. Maslov, Alexander S. Cherny

Publication date: 16 December 2004

Published in: Theory of Probability & Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

volumeentropyrelative entropydata compressionpressurefree energytemperaturedensityNernst theoremmetastable statemassKullback--Leibler informationGibbs stateEsscher transformexponential utilitystable stateminimal entropy martingale measureamount of informationaverage cost of codinginterior energy

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