Toward a relative q-entropy

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2019.123270arXiv1905.01672MaRDI QIDQ6318232FDOQ6318232

Publication date: 5 May 2019

Abstract: We address the question and related controversy of the formulation of the

q

-entropy, and its relative entropy counterpart, for models described by continuous (non-discrete) sets of variables. We notice that an

L_{p}

normalized functional proposed by Lutwak-Yang-Zhang (LYZ), which is essentially a variation of a properly normalized relative R'{e}nyi entropy up to a logarithm, has extremal properties that make it an attractive candidate which can be used to construct such a relative

q

-entropy. We comment on the extremizing probability distributions of this LYZ functional, its relation to the escort distributions, a generalized Fisher information and the corresponding Cram'{e}r-Rao inequality. We point out potential physical implications of the LYZ entropic functional and of its extremal distributions.

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