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Toward a relative q-entropy

Statistical Mechanics 2020-04-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We address the question and related controversy of the formulation of the qq-entropy, and its relative entropy counterpart, for models described by continuous (non-discrete) sets of variables. We notice that an LpL_p 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 qq-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

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