Role of nonequilibrium entropy in Einstein's theory of gravitation

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4560-4564

  Öttinger, Hans Christian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Covariant GENERIC; Global entropy; Gravitational entropy; Nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EINSTEIN EQUATION; GLOBAL ENTROPY; NONEQUILIBRIUM ENTROPY;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 44149101408     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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