• DocumentCode
    2346211
  • Title

    The Boltzmann entropy and randomness tests

  • Author

    Gács, Péter

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Boston Univ., MA, USA
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    17-20 Nov 1994
  • Firstpage
    209
  • Lastpage
    216
  • Abstract
    In the context of the dynamical systems of classical mechanics, we introduce two new notions called “algorithmic fine-grain and coarse-grain entropy”. The fine-grain algorithmic entropy is, on the one hand, a simple variant of the Martin-Lof (and other) randomness tests, and, on the other hand, a connecting link between description (Kolmogorov) complexity, Gibbs entropy and Boltzmann entropy. The coarse-grain entropy is a slight correction to Boltzmann´s coarse-grain entropy. Its main advantage is its less partition dependence, due to the fact that algorithmic entropies for different coarse-grainings are approximations of one and the same fine-grain entropy. It has the desirable properties of Boltzmann entropy in a somewhat wider range of systems, including those of interest in the “thermodynamics of computation”
  • Keywords
    Boltzmann equation; classical mechanics; computational complexity; entropy; information theory; random processes; Boltzmann entropy; Gibbs entropy; Kolmogorov complexity; algorithmic coarse-grain entropy; algorithmic fine-grain entropy; approximations; classical mechanics; computation; description complexity; dynamical systems; partition dependence; randomness tests; thermodynamics; Computer science; Containers; Entropy; Extraterrestrial measurements; Mechanical variables measurement; Phase measurement; State-space methods; System testing; Thermodynamics; Volume measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Physics and Computation, 1994. PhysComp '94, Proceedings., Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Dallas, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-6715-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHYCMP.1994.363679
  • Filename
    363679