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Mike2
Jun9-04, 04:28 AM
It seems clear that strings represent structure, and various quantities are calculated along the worldsheet. So can one calculate the entropy associated with the information contained in the quantities along the string?

Thanks.
Mike2
Jun9-04, 04:28 AM
Even more fundamental... Can we say that if no energy can enter or escape the universe as a whole, is the Shannon information content of the universe a constant?
Urs Schreiber
Jun10-04, 05:32 PM
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> It seems clear that strings represent structure, and various quantities
> are calculated along the worldsheet. So can one calculate the entropy
> associated with the information contained in the quantities along the
> string?

See this link for an answer:

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/string/archives/000379.html .
rathankar
Feb14-08, 06:56 AM
dear friends
i would like to compute entropy using string information alone. are there any software which does this jobs. do send me a reply