A note on q-Gaussians and non-Gaussians in statistical mechanics

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2007/06/P06003zbMATH Open1456.82003arXiv0705.0600MaRDI QIDQ5239359FDOQ5239359

Authors: H. J. Hilhorst, Grégory Schehr 

Publication date: 22 October 2019

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The sum of $N$ sufficiently strongly correlated random variables will not in general be Gaussian distributed in the limit N oinfty. We revisit examples of sums x that have recently been put forward as instances of variables obeying a q-Gaussian law, that is, one of type (cst) imes[1-(1-q)x^2]^{1/(1-q)}. We show by explicit calculation that the probability distributions in the examples are actually analytically different from q-Gaussians, in spite of numerically resembling them very closely. Although q-Gaussians exhibit many interesting properties, the examples investigated do not support the idea that they play a special role as limit distributions of correlated sums.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0600

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zbMATH Keywords

exact resultsstochastic processes (theory)classical Monte Carlo simulationsrigorous results in statistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Basic hypergeometric functions (33D99) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

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