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Qualms concerning Tsallis' use of the maximum entropy formalism

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Tsallis' 'statistical thermodynamic' formulation of the nonadditive entropy of degree-\alpha is neither correct nor self-consistent.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312132,
  title  = {Qualms concerning Tsallis' use of the maximum entropy formalism},
  author = {B. H. Lavenda and J. Dunning-Davies},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312132},
  year   = {2007}
}

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