Abstract
We report the analytical study of a class of chemical reactions described as birth-and-death stochastic processes ruled by a master equation compatible with the mass action law of chemical kinetics. We solve analytically this master equation to find the generating functions of the fluctuating fluxes and of the Lebowitz-Spohn action functional. These generating functions are explicitly shown to obey fluctuation theorems. In the case of fluxes, we derive relations for the nonlinear response coefficients, extending Onsager's reciprocity relations. Moreover, symmetry relations reminiscent of the fluctuation theorem are obtained for the finite-time probability distributions of the fluxes. The temporal disorder of the stochastic process is also characterized and related to the thermodynamic entropy production.
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