Perturbation and Variational Methods in Nonextensive Tsallis Statistics
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
A unified presentation of the perturbation and variational methods for the generalized statistical mechanics based on Tsallis entropy is given here. In the case of the variational method, the Bogoliubov inequality is generalized in a very natural way following the Feynman proof for the usual statistical mechanics. The inequality turns out to be form-invariant with respect to the entropic index . The method is illustrated with a simple example in classical mechanics. The formalisms developed here are expected to be useful in the discussion of nonextensive systems.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9804095,
title = {Perturbation and Variational Methods in Nonextensive Tsallis Statistics},
author = {E. K. Lenzi and L. C. Malacarne and R. S. Mendes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9804095},
year = {2009}
}
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