%0 Journal Article
%T Affinity and Fluctuations in a Mesoscopic Noria
%A M. Bauer
%A F. Cornu
%J Physics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%X We exhibit the invariance of cycle affinities in finite state Markov processes under various natural probabilistic constructions, for instance under conditioning and under a new combinatorial construction that we call ``drag and drop''. We show that cycle affinities have a natural probabilistic meaning related to first passage non-equilibrium fluctuation relations that we establish.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2422v1