Reconstruction of Markovian dynamics from untimed data

Abstract: I develop a theoretical framework for inferring nonequilibrium equations of motion from incomplete experimental data. I focus on genuinely irreversible, Markovian processes, for which the incomplete data are given in the form of snapshots of the macrostate at different instances of the evolution, yet without any information about the timing of these snapshots. A reconstruction of the equation of motion must therefore be preceded by a reconstruction of time.