Tsallis entropy, escort probability and the incomplete information theory (Q657522)
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Tsallis entropy, escort probability and the incomplete information theory (English)
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9 January 2012
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Summary: Non-extensive statistical mechanics appears as a powerful way to describe complex systems. Tsallis entropy, the main core of this theory has been remained as an unproven assumption. Many people have tried to derive the Tsallis entropy axiomatically. Here we follow the work of \textit{Q. A. Wang} [``Nonextensive statistics and incomplete information. Eur. Phys. J. B 26, 357--368 (2002)] and use the incomplete information theory to retrieve the Tsallis entropy. We change the incomplete information axioms to consider the escort probability and obtain a correct form of Tsallis entropy in comparison with Wang's work.
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non-extensive statistical mechanics
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Tsallis entropy
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incomplete information
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escort probability
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