Abstract
Weak coupling is defined as a coupling between components which affects only their ‘external statistics’, ‘internal statistics’ adapting to external statistics as they would if components were isolated. The energy and matter transfers that lead to the Gibbs distribution in statistical mechanics exemplify such a mechanism, as does the transfer of jobs in Jackson networks of processors. The class of components that show weak coupling under a certain class of communication rules is determined exactly, and generalizes the two examples mentioned.
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