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Janzing, Dominik, Chaves, Rafael ORCID: 0000-0001-8493-4019 and Schoelkopf, Bernhard (2016). Algorithmic independence of initial condition and dynamical law in thermodynamics and causal inference. New J. Phys., 18. BRISTOL: IOP PUBLISHING LTD. ISSN 1367-2630

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Abstract

We postulate a principle stating that the initial condition of a physical system is typically algorithmically independent of the dynamical law. We discuss the implications of this principle and argue that they link thermodynamics and causal inference. On the one hand, they entail behavior that is similar to the usual arrow of time. On the other hand, they motivate a statistical asymmetry between cause and effect that has recently been postulated in the field of causal inference, namely, that the probability distribution P-cause contains no information about the conditional distribution P-effect vertical bar(cause) and vice versa, while P-effect may contain information about P-cause vertical bar(effect).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Janzing, Dominik UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Chaves, Rafael UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8493-4019 UNSPECIFIED Schoelkopf, Bernhard UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-262054
DOI:	10.1088/1367-2630/18/9/093052
Journal or Publication Title:	New J. Phys.
Volume:	18
Date:	2016
Publisher:	IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Place of Publication:	BRISTOL
ISSN:	1367-2630
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INFORMATION; COMPLEXITY; DISCOVERY Multiple languages Physics, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/26205