On the Definition of Fluctuating Temperature

DOI10.1023/B:OPSY.0000034192.11737.6CzbMATH Open1211.82029arXivcond-mat/0401024OpenAlexW1971586352MaRDI QIDQ4736734FDOQ4736734

Bernard H. Lavenda

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Open Systems & Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Maxwell distribution is derived from the $F$-distribution in the limit where one of the degrees of freedom of the $ch{i}^2$ variates tends to infinity. The estimator of the temperature is consistent, and, hence coincides with the temperature of the heat reservoir in the asymptotic limit; it is also unbiased and efficient. Consequently, there is a contradiction between indentifying the Lagrange multiplier in the variational formalism that Tsallis and co-workers use to maximize his nonadditive entropy with respect to escort expectation values in order to derive the Student $t$- and $r$-distributions and the physical meaning of these variables. Only in the asymptotic limit when these distributions become the $ch{i}^2$-distributions of MBG statistics can the Lagrange multiplier be interpreted as the inverse temperature. Hence, there is no generalization of the $ch{i}^2$-distributions that can be made which involves interpreting the Lagrange multiplier as the inverse temperature. The frequency interpretation of the fluctuating temperature is contrasted with the Bayesian approach that treats a parameter to be estimated as a random variable which is equipped with a probability distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401024

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

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• Superstatistics and the quest of generalized ensembles equivalence in a system with long-range interactions
• Superstatistics and temperature fluctuations

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