Nonconcave entropies in multifractals and the thermodynamic formalism

DOI10.1007/S10955-006-9174-ZzbMATH Open1119.82023arXivcond-mat/0507379OpenAlexW2162731658MaRDI QIDQ867040FDOQ867040

Authors: Hugo Touchette, Christian Beck 

Publication date: 14 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss a subtlety involved in the calculation of multifractal spectra when these are expressed as Legendre-Fenchel transforms of functions analogous to free energy functions. We show that the Legendre-Fenchel transform of a free energy function yields the correct multifractal spectrum only when the latter is wholly concave. If the spectrum has no definite concavity, then the transform yields the concave envelope of the spectrum rather than the spectrum itself. Some mathematical and physical examples are given to illustrate this result, which lies at the root of the nonequivalence of the microcanonical and canonical ensembles. On a more positive note, we also show that the impossibility of expressing nonconcave multifractal spectra through Legendre-Fenchel transforms of free energies can be circumvented with the help of a generalized free energy function, which relates to a recently introduced generalized canonical ensemble. Analogies with the calculation of rate functions in large deviation theory are finally discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507379

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyfree energythermodynamic formalismmultifractal spectrumLegendre transformmultifractals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractals (28A80) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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