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The $H$-theorem in $\kappa$-statistics: influence on the molecular chaos hypothesis

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We rediscuss recent derivations of kinetic equations based on the Kaniadakis' entropy concept. Our primary objective here is to derive a kinetical version of the second law of thermodynamycs in such a κ\kappa-framework. To this end, we assume a slight modification of the molecular chaos hypothesis. For the HκH_{\kappa}-theorem, it is shown that the collisional equilibrium states (null entropy source term) are described by a κ\kappa-power law extension of the exponential distribution and, as should be expected, all these results reduce to the standard one in the limit κ0\kappa\to 0.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0511228,
  title  = {The $H$-theorem in $\kappa$-statistics: influence on the molecular chaos hypothesis},
  author = {R. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0511228},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, eqs. (18) and (22) have been corrected, to appear in Phys. Lett. A