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A counterexample against the Lesche stability of a generic entropy functional

Statistical Mechanics 2020-10-21 v1

Abstract

We provide a counterexample to show that the generic form of entropy S(p)=sum_i g(p_i) is not always stable against small variation of probability distribution (Lesche stability) even if is concave function on [0,1] and analytic on ]0,1]. Our conclusion is that the stability of such a generic functional needs more hypotheses on the property of the function g, or in other words, the stability of entropy cannot be discussed at this formal stage.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4169,
  title  = {A counterexample against the Lesche stability of a generic entropy functional},
  author = {Aziz El Kaabouchi and Qiuping A. Wang and C. J. Ou and Jincan Chen and Guozhen Su and Alain Le Méhauté},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4169},
  year   = {2020}
}