Hugo Touchette: Topological pressure, free energy, equilibrium states and all that
Abstract:
This will be a basic, stop-me-to-ask-questions talk aimed at dispelling some of the mysteries surrounding the use of concepts of thermodynamics in dynamical system theory. Among other things, I will try to explain why the topological pressure has the name it has, why it is not really a pressure but a free energy, and why a free energy should enter dynamical system theory at all.