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In the 1950’s and early 1960’s there was a great deal of activity trying to develop a theory of irreversible processes in terms of the notion of local entropy production. For a time it appeared that this conception might be justified in statistical theory. However, these arguments (de Groot and Mazur, 1962) used the Boltzmann H-function definition of entropy, S B = —kH B based on the single-particle distribution function. Recognition of the difficulties caused by this was slow in coming.
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Rosenkrantz, R.D. (1989). Gibbs vs Boltzmann Entropies (1965). In: Rosenkrantz, R.D. (eds) E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical Physics. Synthese Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6581-2_5
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