Majorization and Dynamics of Continuous Distributions.

Entropy (Basel)

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Caixa Postal 15051, Rio de Janeiro CEP 91501-970, RJ, Brazil.

Published: June 2019

In this work we show how the concept of majorization in continuous distributions can be employed to characterize mixing, diffusive, and quantum dynamics along with the -Boltzmann theorem. The key point lies in that the definition of majorization allows choosing a wide range of convex functions ϕ for studying a given dynamics. By choosing appropriate convex functions, mixing dynamics, generalized Fokker-Planck equations, and quantum evolutions are characterized as majorized ordered chains along the time evolution, being the stationary states the infimum elements. Moreover, assuming a dynamics satisfying continuous majorization, the -Boltzmann theorem is obtained as a special case for ϕ ( x ) = x ln x .

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