Entropy production in classical and

Abstract. Koopmanism – the spectral theory of dynamical systems – re-duces the study of dynamical properties of a classical or quantum system S to the spectral analysis of its Liouvillean LS. By definition, the opera-tor LS implements the dynamics on a suitable representation of the observ-able algebra of S. Near thermal equilibrium, this representation can often be constructed explicitely. Recent developments have shown that, in this situation, spectral analysis becomes a powerful tool in the study of thermal relaxation processes. Far from thermal equilibrium, the explicit construction of stationary states and of the corresponding representations is usually not possible. Nevertheless, important physical properties of the system S can be obtained from a fairly simple mathematical analysis. In this work, I inves-tigate entropy production in open systems driven away from equilibrium by thermodynamic forces