摘要翻译：
大自然采取最容易和最容易获得的路径，因此，过程在最短的时间内完成得非常快。1662年，费马利用这一原理得出了折射定律。这是已知的第一次尝试之一，它成功地演绎描述了涉及变分原理的物理现象。目前，研究非平衡过程的研究人员又回到了费马的最大熵产生原理(MEPP)。MEPP已被证明是理解和描述物理、化学和生物学中各种非平衡过程的有效工具。这就引出了两个问题：1）这一原理能声称是所有非平衡物理的基础吗？2）是否有可能证明MEPP？
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英文标题：
《Do Nonequilibrium Processes Have Features in Common?》
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作者：
Leonid M. Martyushev
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最新提交年份：
2007
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分类信息：

一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Statistical Mechanics        统计力学
分类描述：Phase transitions, thermodynamics, field theory, non-equilibrium phenomena, renormalization group and scaling, integrable models, turbulence
相变，热力学，场论，非平衡现象，重整化群和标度，可积模型，湍流
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一级分类：Physics        物理学
二级分类：Other Condensed Matter        其他凝聚态物质
分类描述：Work in condensed matter that does not fit into the other cond-mat classifications
在不适合其他cond-mat分类的凝聚态物质中工作
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英文摘要：
  The nature takes the easiest and most accessible paths and, hence, processes are accomplished very quickly in a minimum time. In 1662 P. Fermat used this principle to work out the refraction law. This was one of the first known attempts at successful deductive description of a physical phenomenon involving the variational principle. Presently researchers concerned with nonequilibrium processes have turned back to Fermat's idea in the form of the maximum entropy production principle (MEPP). MEPP has proved to be good for understanding and description of diverse nonequilibrium processes in physics, chemistry and biology. This brings up two questions: 1) Can this principle claim to be the basis of all nonequilibrium physics? 2) Is it possible to prove MEPP?
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PDF链接：
https://arxiv.org/pdf/709.0152