Boltzmannian equilibrium in stochastic systems
Werndl, C. & Frigg, R.
(2016).
Boltzmannian equilibrium in stochastic systems.
In
Massimi, M. & Romeijn, J.
(Eds.),
Proceedings of the EPSA15 Conference
.
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
(2016).
Boltzmannian equilibrium in stochastic systems.
In
Massimi, M. & Romeijn, J.
(Eds.),
Proceedings of the EPSA15 Conference
.
Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
Equilibrium is a central concept of statistical mechanics. In previous work we introduced the notions of a Boltzmannian alpha-epsilon-equilibrium and a Boltzmannian gamma-varepsilon-equilibrium (Werndl and Frigg 2015a, 2015b). This was done in a deterministic context. We now consider systems with a stochastic microdynamics and transfer these notions from the deterministic to the stochastic context. We then prove stochastic equivalents of the Dominance Theorem and the Prevalence Theorem. This establishes that also in stochastic systems equilibrium macro-regions are large in requisite sense.