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Are power-law distributions an equilibrium distribution or a stationary nonequilibrium distribution?

Statistical Mechanics 2015-08-10 v2

Abstract

We examine whether the principle of detailed balance holds for the power-law distributions generated from the general Langevin equation under the generalized fluctuation-dissipation relation (FDR). With the detailed balance and the generalized FDR, we derive analytically the stationary power-law distribution from the Ito's, Stratonovich's and Zwanzig's Fokker-Planck equations, and conclude that the power-law distributions can either be a stationary nonequilibrium distribution or an equilibrium distribution, which depend on information about the form of the diffusion coefficient function, and the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium state.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5441,
  title  = {Are power-law distributions an equilibrium distribution or a stationary nonequilibrium distribution?},
  author = {Ran Guo and Jiulin Du},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5441},
  year   = {2015}
}

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