Generalized entropies and the transformation group of superstatistics

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DOI10.1073/PNAS.1103539108zbMATH Open1256.82002arXiv1211.2257OpenAlexW2000356308WikidataQ46796124 ScholiaQ46796124MaRDI QIDQ4907458FDOQ4907458


Authors: Rudolf Hanel, Murray Gell-Mann, Stefan Thurner Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 February 2013

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For statistical systems that violate one of the four Shannon-Khinchin axioms, entropy takes a more general form than the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy. The framework of superstatistics allows one to formulate a maximum entropy principle with these generalized entropies, making them useful for understanding distribution functions of non-Markovian or non-ergodic complex systems. For such systems where the composability axiom is violated there exist only two ways to implement the maximum entropy principle, one using escort probabilities, the other not. The two ways are connected through a duality. Here we show that this duality fixes a unique escort probability, which allows us to derive a complete theory of the generalized logarithms that naturally arise from the violation of this axiom. We then show how the functional forms of these generalized logarithms are related to the asymptotic scaling behavior of the entropy.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2257




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