Utility maximizing entropy and the second law of thermodynamics

Annals of Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 3 A, 2004, Pages 2261-2285

  Słomczyński, Woojciech ^a   Zastawniak, Tomasz ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entropy; Exactness; H theorem; Markov operators; Second law of thermodynamics; Utility maximization

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544355871     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117904000000117     Document Type: Article

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