Qualms concerning Tsallis' use of the maximum entropy formalism

2003/12/04 by B. H. Lavenda, Lavenda, B. H., Jeremy Dunning-Davies +2
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0312132

9 pages

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Abstract

Tsallis' 'statistical thermodynamic' formulation of the nonadditive entropy of degree-αis neither correct nor self-consistent.

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