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We address in this work the problem of minimizing quantum entropies under local constraints. We suppose macroscopic quantities such as the particle density, current, and kinetic energy are fixed at each point of $\Rm^d$, and look for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Romain Duboscq , Olivier Pinaud

A two parameter generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon entropy based on natural logarithm is introduced. The generalization of the Shannon-Kinchinn axioms corresponding to the two parameter entropy is proposed and verified. We present…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-08 R. Chandrashekar , C. Ravikumar , J. Segar

Fundamental limits on the performance of feedback controllers are essential for benchmarking algorithms, guiding sensor selection, and certifying task feasibility -- yet few general-purpose tools exist for computing them. Existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Vincent Pacelli , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The paper focuses on general properties of parametric minimum contrast estimators. The quality of estimation is measured in terms of the rate function related to the contrast, thus allowing to derive exponential risk bounds invariant with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-07 Yuri Golubev , Vladimir Spokoiny

We consider the Generalized Gibbs ensemble of the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice, and the Schur flow. We derive large deviations principles for the distribution of the empirical measures of the equilibrium measures for these ensembles. As a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Guido Mazzuca , Ronan Memin

An invertible function is bi-Lipschitz if both the function and its inverse have bounded Lipschitz constants. Nowadays, most Normalizing Flows are bi-Lipschitz by design or by training to limit numerical errors (among other things). In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Alexandre Verine , Benjamin Negrevergne , Fabrice Rossi , Yann Chevaleyre

Entropy is being used in physics, mathematics, informatics and in related areas to describe equilibration, dissipation, maximal probability states and optimal compression of information. The Gini index on the other hand is an established…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-19 Tamás S. Biró , Zoltán Néda

For various classes of Lipschitz functions we provide dimension free concentration inequalities for infinitely divisible random vectors with independent components and finite exponential moments.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Houdré , P. Reynaud-Bouret

We prove the large deviation principle for several entropy and cross entropy estimators based on return times and waiting times on shift spaces over finite alphabets. We consider shift-invariant probability measures satisfying some…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Noé Cuneo , Renaud Raquépas

The block entanglement entropy and fluctuations are investigated in one dimension in finite size correlated electron systems using the Gutzwiller wave function as a prototype correlated electron state. Entanglement entropy shows logarithmic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-07 Archak Purkayastha , V. Subrahmanyam

Motivated by the entropy computations relevant to the evaluation of decrease in entropy in bit reset operations, the authors investigate the deficit in an entropic inequality involving two independent random variables, one continuous and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-21 James Melbourne , Saurav Talukdar , Shreyas Bhaban , Murti V. Salapaka

Entropy estimation is of practical importance in information theory and statistical science. Many existing entropy estimators suffer from fast growing estimation bias with respect to dimensionality, rendering them unsuitable for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ziqiao Ao , Jinglai Li

We study the sine-Gordon measure defined on each homotopy class. The energy space decomposes into infinitely many such classes indexed by the topological degree $Q \in \mathbf{Z}$. Even though the sine-Gordon action admits no minimizer in…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Kihoon Seong , Hao Shen , Philippe Sosoe

For a map of the unit interval with an indifferent fixed point, we prove an upper bound for the variance of all observables of $n$ variables $K:[0,1]^n\to\R$ which are componentwise Lipschitz. The proof is based on coupling and decay of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-08-27 J. -R. Chazottes , P. Collet , F. Redig , E. Verbitskiy

We study the Hausdorff dimension of Gibbs measures with infinite entropy with respect to maps of the interval with countably many branches. We show that under simple conditions, such measures are symbolic-exact dimensional, and provide an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Felipe Pérez Pereira

We give an equivalent condition for the existence of invariant Gibbs measures for sequences of continuous functions on one-sided subshifts and, more generally, for the existence of Gibbs measures. These extend the results of Kim [6] and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Yuki Yayama

Consider the set of all sequences of $n$ outcomes, each taking one of $m$ values, that satisfy a number of linear constraints. If $m$ is fixed while $n$ increases, most sequences that satisfy the constraints result in frequency vectors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Kostas N. Oikonomou , Peter D. Grunwald

For a dynamical system far from equilibrium, one has to deal with empirical probabilities defined through time-averages, and the main problem is then how to formulate an appropriate statistical thermodynamics. The common answer is that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Carati

Consider the problem of estimating the Shannon entropy of a distribution over $k$ elements from $n$ independent samples. We show that the minimax mean-square error is within universal multiplicative constant factors of $$\Big(\frac{k }{n…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Yihong Wu , Pengkun Yang

We study the large deviations for focusing Gibbs measures by analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the free energy in the infinite volume limit. This is the invariant Gibbs measure for the dynamical $\Phi^3_2$-models. From our sharp…

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