Archive of posts on Mar 30, 2023
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A measure-theoretic formulation of statistical ensembles (part 1)
For sake of rigor and generalizability, I feel it necessary to try to have a mathematical formulation for statistical ensembles. I chose measure spaces as the underlying mathematical structure of thermal systems and tried to justify the method of statistical ensembles by deducing them from some axioms.
- Categories: physics
- Tags: mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis, measure theory, probability, long paper