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The implicate order and Prigogine's notions of irreversibility

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In this paper, a very close relationship between Prigogine's notions of irreversibility and the implicate order is brought out. Certain of Prigogine's basic assumptions with regard to irreversible processes are also shown to be the equivalent of the introduction of nilpotent operators in the algebra underlying the implicate order.

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Bohm, D. The implicate order and Prigogine's notions of irreversibility. Found Phys 17, 667–677 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889540

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