Exponential families and MaxEnt calculations for entropy measures of statistical physics

DOI10.1063/1.2828721MaRDI QIDQ3534385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Flemming Topsøe

Publication date 3 November 2008

Published in AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1701

zbMATH Keywords

decision theorygame theoryprobability theorythermodynamicsclassical statistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: For a wide range of entropy measures, easy calculation of equilibria is possible using a principle of Game Theoretical Equilibrium related to Jaynes Maximum Entropy Principle. This follows previous work of the author and relates to works of Naudts and, partly, Abe and Bagci.

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