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Unique additive information measures - Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon, Fisher and beyond

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v4

Abstract

It is proved that the only additive and isotropic information measure that can depend on the probability distribution and also on its first derivative is a linear combination of the Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon and Fisher information measures. Power law equilibrium distributions are found as a result of the interaction of the two terms. The case of second order derivative dependence is investigated and a corresponding additive information measure is given.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409255,
  title  = {Unique additive information measures - Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon, Fisher and beyond},
  author = {P. Ván},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409255},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 1 figures, shortened