Upper entropy axioms and lower entropy axioms

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.02.011zbMATH Open1343.94025arXiv1406.4124OpenAlexW3102764811MaRDI QIDQ307191FDOQ307191

Qi Suo, Jinli Guo

Publication date: 1 September 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper suggests the concepts of an upper entropy and a lower entropy. We propose a new axiomatic definition, namely, upper entropy axioms, inspired by axioms of metric spaces, and also formulate lower entropy axioms. We also develop weak upper entropy axioms and weak lower entropy axioms. Their conditions are weaker than those of Shannon-Khinchin axioms and Tsallis axioms, while these conditions are stronger than those of the axiomatics based on the first three Shannon-Khinchin axioms for superstatiscs. The expansibility, subadditivity and strong subadditivity of entropy are obtained in the new axiomatics. Tsallis statistics is a special case of the superstatistics which satisfies our axioms. Moreover, different forms of information measures, such as Shannon entropy, Daroczy entropy, Tsallis entropy and other entropies, can be unified under the same axiomatic framework.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4124

zbMATH Keywords

entropycomplex systeminformation theorynonextensive statistical mechanicsTsallis statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Topological entropy (37B40)

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