The paradigm of complex probability and Ludwig Boltzmann's entropy

Abstract

The Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov's classical system of probability axioms can be extended to encompass the imaginary set of numbers and this by adding to his original five axioms an additional three axioms. Hence, any experiment can thus be executed in what is now the complex probability set 𝒞 which is the sum of the real set ℛ with its corresponding real probability and the imaginary set ℳ with its corresponding imaginary probability. The objective here is to evaluate the complex probabilities by considering supplementary new imaginary dimensions to the event occurring in the ‘real’ laboratory. Whatever the probability distribution of the input random variable in ℛ is, the corresponding probability in the whole set 𝒞 is always one, so the outcome of the random experiment in 𝒞 can be predicted totally and perfectly. The result indicates that chance and luck in ℛ is replaced now by total determinism in 𝒞 . This is the consequence of the fact that the probability in 𝒞 is got by subtracting the chaotic factor from the degree of our knowledge of the stochastic system. This novel complex probability paradigm will be applied to Ludwig Boltzmann's classical concept of entropy in thermodynamics and in statistical mechanics.

Keywords

• Extended Kolmogorov’s Axioms
• complex set
• probability norm
• degree of our knowledge
• chaotic factor
• real entropy
• imaginary entropy
• negative entropy
• complementary real entropy
• complex entropy