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Majorization and Dynamics of Continuous Distributions
Ignacio S Gomez1, Bruno G da Costa2, Maike A F Dos Santos3
1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Rua Barao de Jeremoabo, Salvador-BA 40170-115, Brazil.
Abstract:
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 H-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 H-Boltzmann theorem is obtained as a special case for ϕ ( x ) = x ln x .
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