Ergodic (disambiguation)
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Aside from its generic use as the generic adjective ergodic
, ergodic may relate to:
Ergodic (adjective)
In mathematics, the term ergodic is used to describe a dynamical system which, broadly speaking, has the same behavior averaged over time as averaged over space. In physics the term is used to imply that a system satisfies the ergodic hypothesis of thermodynamics.-Etymology:The word ergodic is...
, ergodic may relate to:
- Ergodic hypothesisErgodic hypothesisIn physics and thermodynamics, the ergodic hypothesis says that, over long periods of time, the time spent by a particle in some region of the phase space of microstates with the same energy is proportional to the volume of this region, i.e., that all accessible microstates are equiprobable over a...
, a postulate of thermodynamics - Ergodic theoryErgodic theoryErgodic theory is a branch of mathematics that studies dynamical systems with an invariant measure and related problems. Its initial development was motivated by problems of statistical physics....
, a branch of mathematics - Ergodic literatureErgodic literatureErgodic literature is a term coined by Espen J. Aarseth in his book Cybertext—Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, and is derived from the Greek words ergon, meaning "work", and hodos, meaning "path"...
, literature that requires special effort to navigate - Ergodic processErgodic processIn signal processing, a stochastic process is said to be ergodic if its statistical properties can be deduced from a single, sufficiently long sample of the process.- Specific definitions :...
, a particular type of stochastic processStochastic processIn probability theory, a stochastic process , or sometimes random process, is the counterpart to a deterministic process...
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