Persistency, Pseudo-Entropy, and the Thermokinetic Potential

Abstract

The microscopic concepts of persistency, pseudo-entropy, and the rate of pseudo-entropy production, introduced by Kikuchi from the viewpoint of path probability, and the macroscopic concept of thermokinetic potential, proposed by the author from the viewpoint of Carathéodory's inaccessibility postulate or of the principle of macroscopic separability, are shown to agree with each other within a constant numerical factor near the steady state for the two examples treated by Kikuchi.