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Minimum Entropy Production of Neutrino Radiation in the Steady State

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A thermodynamic minimum principle valid for photon radiation is shown to hold for arbitrary geometries. It is successfully extended to neutrinos, in the zero mass and chemical potential case, following a parallel development of photon and neutrino statistics. This minimum principle stems more from that of Planck than that of classical Onsager–Prigogine irreversible thermodynamics. Its extension from bosons to fermions suggests that it may have a still wider validity.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, N6A 5B7

    Christopher Essex

  2. Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611

    Dallas C. Kennedy

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Essex, C., Kennedy, D.C. Minimum Entropy Production of Neutrino Radiation in the Steady State. Journal of Statistical Physics 94, 253–267 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004571531540

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