Irreversibility Without Process or Return

Key Points

• The aim is to establish irreversibility as a fundamental condition rather than a process or temporal characteristic.
• Conceptual analysis of irreversibility
• Exploration of non-modal structural systems
• Examination of existing definitions of irreversibility
• Irreversibility is established independently of processes or temporal structures.
• The study redefines irreversibility away from notions of entropy or change.
• Irreversibility is framed as a core structural property in certain systems.

Abstract