Toward a relative q-entropy
Abstract
We address the question and related controversy of the formulation of the -entropy, and its relative entropy counterpart, for models described by continuous (non-discrete) sets of variables. We notice that an normalized functional proposed by Lutwak-Yang-Zhang (LYZ), which is essentially a variation of a properly normalized relative R\'{e}nyi entropy up to a logarithm, has extremal properties that make it an attractive candidate which can be used to construct such a relative -entropy. We comment on the extremizing probability distributions of this LYZ functional, its relation to the escort distributions, a generalized Fisher information and the corresponding Cram\'{e}r-Rao inequality. We point out potential physical implications of the LYZ entropic functional and of its extremal distributions.
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@article{arxiv.1905.01672,
title = {Toward a relative q-entropy},
author = {Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01672},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Minor changes in this version. 23 pages. No figures. LaTeX2e. To be published in Physica A