Stability of the entropy for superstatistics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2003.10.025MaRDI QIDQ1414515zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Tsallis, Andre M. C. Souza

Publication date 23 November 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0301304

zbMATH Keywords

optimizationconcavityBack-Cohen superstatistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

Abstract: The Boltzmann-Gibbs celebrated entropy $S_{BG}=-ksu{m}_i{p}_{i}ln{p}_i$ is {it concave} (with regard to all probability distributions $p_i$) and {it stable} (under arbitrarily small deformations of any given probability distribution). It seems reasonable to consider these two properties as {it necessary} for an entropic form to be a {it physical} one in the thermostatistical sense. Most known entropic forms (e.g., Renyi entropy) violate these conditions, in contrast with the basis of nonextensive statistical mechanics, namely $S_q=kfrac1-su{m}_i{p}_i^{q}q-1(qincalR;S_1=S_{BG})$, which satisfies both ($forallq>0$). We have recently generalized $S_q$ (into $S$) in order to yield, through optimization, the Beck-Cohen superstatistics. We show here that $S$ satisfies both conditions as well. Given the fact that the (experimentally observed) optimizing distributions are invariant through {it any} monotonic function of the entropic form to be optimized, this might constitute a very strong criterion for identifying the physically correct entropy.

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