2006/11/17 by Sérgio B. Volchan, Volchan, Sergio B. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Theoretical and Computational Physics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0611172
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The concept of typicality refers to properties holding for the "overwhelming majority" of cases and is a fundamental idea of the qualitative approach to dynamical problems. We argue that measure-theoretical typicality would be the adequate viewpoint of the role of probability in classical statistical mechanics, particularly in understanding the micro to macroscopic change of levels of description.