Reduction of a mesoscopic dynamical theory to equilibrium thermodynamics brings to the latter theory the fundamental thermodynamic relation (i.e. entropy as a function of the thermodynamic state variables). The reduction is made by following the mesoscopic time evolution to its conclusion, i.e. to fixed points at which the time evolution ceases to continue. The approach to fixed points is driven by entropy, that, if evaluated at the fixed points, becomes the thermodynamic entropy. Since the fixed points are parametrized by the thermodynamic state variables (by constants of motion), the thermodynamic entropy arises as a function of the thermodynamic state variables and thus the final outcome of the reduction is the fundamental thermodynamic relation. This reduction process extends also to reductions in which the reduced theory still involves the time evolution (e.g. reduction of kinetic theory to hydrodynamics). The essence of the extension is the replacement of the mesoscopic time evolution of the state variables with the corresponding mesoscopic time evolution of the vector field (i.e. of the fluxes). The fixed point in this flux time evolution is the vector field generating the reduced mesoscopic time evolution. The flux-entropy driving the flux time evolution becomes, if evaluated at the fixed point, the flux fundamental thermodynamic relation in the reduced dynamical theory. We show that the flux-entropy is a potential related to the entropy production. This article is part of the theme issue 'Fundamental aspects of nonequilibrium thermodynamics'.

Department of Mathematics FNSPE Czech Technical University Prague Trojanova 13 Prague 120 00 Czech Republic

École Polytechnique de Montréal C P 6079 suc Centre ville Montréal Québec Canada H3C 3A7

Mathematical Institute Faculty of Mathematics Charles University Sokolovská 83 Prague 18675 Czech Republic

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