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18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical a
We propose a simple way to define a Hamiltonian for aperiodic Markov c
hains and to apply these chains in a thermodynamical context. The basi
c thermodynamic functions are correspondingly calculated. A quite intr
iguing and nontrivial application to stochastic automata is also point
ed out.