On the connection between linear combination of entropies and linear combination of extremizing distributions
Abstract
We analyze the distribution that extremizes a linear combination of the Boltzmann--Gibbs entropy and the nonadditive -entropy. We show that this distribution can be expressed in terms of a Lambert function. Both the entropic functional and the extremizing distribution can be associated with a nonlinear Fokker--Planck equation obtained from a master equation with nonlinear transition rates. Also, we evaluate the entropy extremized by a linear combination of a Gaussian distribution (which extremizes the Boltzmann--Gibbs entropy) and a -Gaussian distribution (which extremizes the -entropy). We give its explicit expression for , and discuss the other cases numerically. The entropy that we obtain can be expressed, for , in terms of Lambert functions, and exhibits a discontinuity in the second derivative for all values of . The entire discussion is closely related to recent results for type-II superconductors and for the statistics of the standard map.
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@article{arxiv.1601.07951,
title = {On the connection between linear combination of entropies and linear combination of extremizing distributions},
author = {Gabriele Sicuro and Debarshee Bagchi and Constantino Tsallis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07951},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages, 3 figure