Remark on the escort distribution representation of nonextensive statistical mechanics

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00582-XMaRDI QIDQ998064zbMATHFDO

Authors Sumiyoshi Abe

Publication date 10 August 2007

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006053

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

Abstract: It is pointed out that the Tsallis entropy functional represented in terms of the escort distribution is not concave of the entropic index $q$ is less than unity. It is emphasized that the escort distribution is a secondary object calculated from the basic original distribution.

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• Possible generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics.

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• Laws of large numbers for \(q\)-dependent random variables and nonextensive statistical mechanics
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• Tsallis entropy, escort probability and the incomplete information theory
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