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Tsallis Entropy and the transition to scaling in fragmentation

Soft Condensed Matter 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

By using the maximum entropy principle with Tsallis entropy we obtain a fragment size distribution function which undergoes a transition to scaling. This distribution function reduces to those obtained by other authors using Shannon entropy. The treatment is easily generalisable to any process of fractioning with suitable constraints.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0002339,
  title  = {Tsallis Entropy and the transition to scaling in fragmentation},
  author = {Oscar Sotolongo-Costa and Arezky H. Rodriguez and G. J. Rodgers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0002339},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, submitted for publication