Relative entropy, Haar measures and relativistic canonical velocity distributions

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dunkel, Jörn ^a   Talkner, Peter ^a   Hänggi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

HAAR MEASURES; RELATIVE ENTROPY; TRANSFORMATION PROPERTIES; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 34249278486     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/9/5/144     Document Type: Article

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