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It is demonstrated that the traditional proof of the Prigogine principle of minimum entropy production is incorrect. Provided that the Onsager reciprocal relations are satisfied, the Prigogine principle is valid when and only when generalized thermodynamic fluxes are simultaneously equal to zero at nonzero values of the generalized thermodynamic forces.
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I. Prigogine, Introduction to Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes (Interscience, New York, 1968; Russ. transl. of earlier ed.: IL, Moscow, 1960).
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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 29, No. 8, 2003, pp. 69–71.
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Mamedov, M.M. On the incorrectness of the traditional proof of the prigogine principle of minimum entropy production. Tech. Phys. Lett. 29, 340–341 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1573310
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1573310