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We prove that a version of the minimal entropy production principle holds rigorously for the nearest neighbor gradient system, whose hydrodynamic behavior we treated in an earlier paper, and study its relation to the macroscopic mass current and local equilibrium of higher order.
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Mürmann, M.G. The nearest neighbor gradient system. A rigorous model for a version of the minimal entropy production principle. J Stat Phys 59, 827–843 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01025853
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