Nonextensive Entropy, Prior PDFs and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Statistical Mechanics
2008-10-27 v2 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
We show that using nonextensive entropy can lead to spontaneous symmetry breaking when a parameter changes its value from that applicable for a symmetric domain, as in field theory. We give the physical reasons and also show that even for symmetric Dirichlet priors, such a defnition of the entropy and the parameter value can lead to asymmetry when entropy is maximized.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.1072,
title = {Nonextensive Entropy, Prior PDFs and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking},
author = {Fariel Shafee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1072},
year = {2008}
}
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