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It is shown that R\'enyi statistics provides a plausible basis to describe the hadron distributions measured in high energy particle interactions. Generalized Boltzmann and gamma distributions obtained by maximization of R\'enyi entropy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kropivnitskaya , A. Rostovtsev

This article is a continuation of my paper [arxiv: 1409.1015v2]. R\'enyi and Tsallis entropies are associated to positive linear operators and properties of some functions related to these entropies are investigated.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Ioan Raşa

Information theory provides principled ways to analyze different inference and learning problems such as hypothesis testing, clustering, dimensionality reduction, classification, among others. However, the use of information theoretic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Murali Rao , Jose C. Principe

We investigate the R\'enyi entropy of independent sums of integer valued random variables through Fourier theoretic means, and give sharp comparisons between the variance and the R\'enyi entropy, for Poisson-Bernoulli variables. As…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

The profile of a sample is the multiset of its symbol frequencies. We show that for samples of discrete distributions, profile entropy is a fundamental measure unifying the concepts of estimation, inference, and compression. Specifically,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Yi Hao , Alon Orlitsky

This paper introduces a framework for modeling cyclical and feedback-driven information flow through a generalized family of entropy-modulated transformations called derangetropy functionals. Unlike scalar and static entropy measures such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Masoud Ataei , Xiaogang Wang

The analogues of Arimoto's definition of conditional R\'enyi entropy and R\'enyi mutual information are explored for abstract alphabets. These quantities, although dependent on the reference measure, have some useful properties similar to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Gautam Aishwarya , Mokshay Madiman

We provide a quantum statistical basis for (a)a characterisation of a complete set of thermodynamic variables and (b) the differentiability of the entropy function of these variables

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Geoffrey L. Sewell

A task is randomly drawn from a finite set of tasks and is described using a fixed number of bits. All the tasks that share its description must be performed. Upper and lower bounds on the minimum $\rho$-th moment of the number of performed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Christoph Bunte , Amos Lapidoth

Inferring models, predicting the future, and estimating the entropy rate of discrete-time, discrete-event processes is well-worn ground. However, a much broader class of discrete-event processes operates in continuous-time. Here, we provide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-11 S. E. Marzen , J. P. Crutchfield

We present two new estimators for estimating the entropy of absolutely continuous random variables. Some properties of them are considered, specifically consistency of the first is proved. The introduced estimators are compared with the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-05 A. Kohansal , S. Rezakhah

We consider the indices of coincidence for the binomial, Poisson, and negative binomial distributions. They are related in a simple manner to the R\'{e}nyi entropy and Tsallis entropy. We investigate some families of Heun functions…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Adina Barar , Gabriela Raluca Mocanu , Ioan Rasa

Two-sided bounds are explored for concentration functions and R\'enyi entropies in the class of discrete log-concave probability distributions. They are used to derive certain variants of the entropy power inequalities.

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Sergey G. Bobkov , Arnaud Marsiglietti , James Melbourne

In this work, we investigate the reliability of information-theoretic measures based on the electron-density and shape-function, specifically Shannon and R\'enyi entropies, as descriptors of electronic correlation. By establishing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Diogo J. L. Rodrigues , Evelio Francisco , Ángel Martín Pendás

Entropy is a fundamental concept in equilibrium statistical mechanics, yet its origin in the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems is not fully understood. A strong consensus is emerging around the idea that the stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-20 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

The Shannon entropy, the desequilibrium and their generalizations (R\'enyi and Tsallis entropies) of the three-dimensional single-particle systems in a spherically-symmetric potential $V(r)$ can be decomposed into angular and radial parts.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 J. S. Dehesa , I. V. Toranzo , D. Puertas-Centeno

This paper studies the behavior of the entropy numbers of classes of functions with bounded integral norms from a given finite dimensional linear subspace. Upper bounds of these entropy numbers in the uniform norm are obtained and applied…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-01-30 F. Dai , A. Prymak , A. Shadrin , V. Temlyakov , S. Tikhonov

In the estimation theory context, we generalize the notion of Shannon's entropy power to the R\'{e}nyi-entropy setting. This not only allows to find new estimation inequalities, such as the R\'{e}nyi-entropy based De Bruijn identity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Petr Jizba , Jacob Dunningham , Martin Prokš

General relations are found between the measure of the uniformity of distributions on the phase space and the first moments and correlations of extensive variables for systems close to thermal equilibrium. The role played by the parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arkadiusz Majka , Wojciech Wislicki

Despite being a well-established operational approach to quantify entanglement, R\'enyi entropy calculations have been plagued by their computational complexity. We introduce here a theoretical framework based on an optimal thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier