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In this contribution we show that a suitably defined nonequilibrium entropy of an N-body isolated system is not a constant of the motion in general and its variation is bounded, the bounds determined by the thermodynamic entropy, i.e., the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Perez-Madrid

We construct the generalized entropy optimized by a given arbitrary statistical distribution with a finite linear expectation value of a random quantity of interest. This offers, via the maximum entropy principle, a unified basis for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sumiyoshi Abe

Relating thermodynamic and kinetic properties is a conceptual challenge with many practical benefits. Here, based on first principles, we derive a rigorous inequality relating the entropy and the dynamic propagator of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-11 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

Steady state distribution functions can be used to calculate stability conditions for modes, radiation energy losses, and particle loss rates. Heuristic analytic approximations to these distributions can capture key behaviors of the true…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Greta X. Li , Elijah J. Kolmes , Ian E. Ochs , Nathaniel J. Fisch

An entanglement Renyi entropy for a spatial partition of a system is studied in conformal theories which admit a dual description in terms of an anti-de Sitter gravity. The divergent part of the Renyi entropy is computed in 4D conformal N=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dmitri V. Fursaev

With use of the Second Inverse Maximum Entropy Principle we find entropy functions for systems with fractal distribution functions with order parameter $q$. We compare these entropy functions with those given by the Bose-Einstein and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-27 Marcelo R. Ubriaco

According to a previous conjecture, spatial and temporal Lyapunov exponents of chaotic extended systems can be obtained from derivatives of a suitable function: the entropy potential. The validity and the consequences of this hypothesis are…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Stefano Lepri , Antonio Politi , Alessandro Torcini

Dissipative processes cause collisionless plasmas in many systems to develop nonthermal particle distributions with broad power-law tails. The prevalence of power-law energy distributions in space/astrophysical observations and kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Vladimir Zhdankin

Quantum Renyi relative entropies provide a one-parameter family of distances between density matrices, which generalizes the relative entropy and the fidelity. We study these measures for renormalization group flows in quantum field theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Horacio Casini , Raimel Medina , Ignacio Salazar , Gonzalo Torroba

In this paper non-asymptotic exact rearrangement invariant norm estimates are derived for the maximum distribution of the family elements of some rearrangement invariant (r.i.) space over unbounded measure in the entropy terms and in the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-08-26 E. Ostrovsky , E. Rogover

The classical problem of moments is addressed by the maximum entropy approach for one-dimensional discrete distributions. The numerical technique of adaptive support approximation is proposed to reconstruct the distributions in the region…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Alexander Andreychenko , Linar Mikeev , Verena Wolf

Motivated by modeling transport processes in the growth of neurons, we present results on (nonlinear) Fokker-Planck equations where the total mass is not conserved. This is either due to in- and outflow boundary conditions or to spatially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Martin Burger , Ina Humpert , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

Entropy and its various generalizations are important in many fields, including mathematical statistics, communication theory, physics and computer science, for characterizing the amount of information associated with a probability…

The focal-loss has become a widely used alternative to cross-entropy in class-imbalanced classification problems, particularly in computer vision. Despite its empirical success, a systematic information-theoretic study of the focal-loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jaimin Shah , Martina Cardone , Alex Dytso

The equivalence between non-extensive C. Tsallis entropy and the extensive entropy introduced by Alfr\'ed R\'enyi is discussed. The R\'enyi entropy is studied from the perspective of the geometry of the Lebesgue and generalised, exotic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-02-25 Giorgio Sonnino , György Steinbrecher , Alberto Sonnino

This paper is concerned with a modified entropy method to establish the large-time convergence towards the (unique) steady state, for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with non-quadratic confinement potentials in whole space. We extend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Anton Arnold , Gayrat Toshpulatov

By constructing successful couplings for degenerate diffusion processes, explicit derivative formula and Harnack type inequalities are presented for solutions to a class of degenerate Fokker-Planck equations on $\R^m\times\R^{d}$. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Arnaud Guillin , Feng-Yu Wang

From the data analysis we defined distribution function against the population on the level of various structure units, namely regions, federal districts and the country on the whole. We have studied peculiarities of the distribution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-06-12 B. R. Gadjiev , M. A. Korolev , T. B. Progulova

An amended MaxEnt formulation for systems displaced from the conventional MaxEnt equilibrium is proposed. This formulation involves the minimization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence to a reference $Q$ (or maximization of Shannon…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-François Bercher

We consider Fokker-Planck equations in the whole Euclidean space, driven by Levy processes, under the action of confining drifts, as in the classical Ornstein-Ulhenbeck model. We introduce a new PDE method to get exponential or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Alessio Porretta
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