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Maximum Renyi entropy principle for systems with power--law Hamiltonian

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

The Renyi distribution ensuring the maximum of a Renyi entropy is investigated for a particular case of a power--law Hamiltonian. Both Lagrange parameters, α\alpha and β\beta can be excluded. It is found that β\beta does not depend on a Renyi parameter qq and can be expressed in terms of an exponent κ\kappa of the power--law Hamiltonian and an average energy UU. The Renyi entropy for the resulted Renyi distribution reaches its maximal value at q=1/(1+κ)q=1/(1+\kappa) that can be considered as the most probable value of qq when we have no additional information on behaviour of the stochastic process. The Renyi distribution for such qq becomes a power--law distribution with the exponent (κ+1)-(\kappa +1). When q=1/(1+κ)+ϵq=1/(1+\kappa)+\epsilon (0<ϵ10<\epsilon\ll 1) there appears a horizontal "head" part of the Renyi distribution that precedes the power--law part. Such a picture corresponds to observables.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402404,
  title  = {Maximum Renyi entropy principle for systems with power--law Hamiltonian},
  author = {A. G. Bashkirov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402404},
  year   = {2009}
}

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