A Contact Topological Glossary for Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

2025/01/10 by Entov, Michael, Polterovich, Leonid, Ryzhik, Lenya · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.05955

Abstract

We discuss the occurrence of some notions and results from contact topology in the non-equilibrium thermodynamics. This includes the Reeb chords and the partial order on the space of Legendrian submanifolds.

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