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An entropy for groups of intermediate growth (English)
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23 October 2018
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Summary: One of the few accepted dynamical foundations of nonadditive (''nonextensive'') statistical mechanics is that the choice of the appropriate entropy functional describing a system with many degrees of freedom should reflect the rate of growth of its configuration or phase space volume. We present an example of a group, as a metric space, that may be used as the phase space of a system whose ergodic behavior is statistically described by the recently proposed \(\delta\)-entropy. This entropy is a one-parameter variation of the Boltzmann/Gibbs/Shannon functional and is quite different, in form, from the power-law entropies that have been recently studied. We use the first Grigorchuk group for our purposes. We comment on the connections of the above construction with the conjectured evolution of the underlying system in phase space.
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statistical mechanics
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Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon functional
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Grigorchuk group
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