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Stokes' theorem as an entropy-extremizing duality

Abstract

Given a manifold , we consider all codimension-1 submanifolds of that satisfy the generalized Stokes' theorem and show that uniquely maximizes the associated entropy functional. This provides an information theoretic characterization of the duality expressed by Stokes' theorem, whereby a manifold's boundary is its 'least informative' subset satisfying the Stokes relation.