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Quantum Information is a new area of research which has been growing rapidly since the last decade. This topic is very close to potential applications to the so called Quantum Computer. In our point of view it makes sense to develop a more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-18 A. Baraviera , C. F. Lardizabal , A. O. Lopes , M. Terra Cunha

The combinatorial basis of entropy, given by Boltzmann, can be written $H = N^{-1} \ln \mathbb{W}$, where $H$ is the dimensionless entropy, $N$ is the number of entities and $\mathbb{W}$ is number of ways in which a given realization of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert K. Niven

Quantum Information is a new area of research which has been growing rapidly since last decade. This topic is very close to potential applications to the so called Quantum Computer. In our point of view it makes sense to develop a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 A. Baraviera , C. F. Lardizabal , A. O. Lopes , M. Terra Cunha

For any infinite word $w$ on a finite alphabet $A$, the complexity function $p_w$ of $w$ is the sequence counting, for each non-negative $n$, the number $p_w(n)$ of words of length $n$ on the alphabet $A$ that are factors of the infinite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Carlos Gustavo Moreira , Christian Mauduit , Sébastien Ferenczi

The large-scale multiple testing inherent to high throughput biological data necessitates very high statistical stringency and thus true effects in data are difficult to detect unless they have high effect sizes. One solution to this…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-21 Mohamad S. Hasan

Credit risk modeling relies extensively on Weight of Evidence (WoE) and Information Value (IV) for feature engineering, and Population Stability Index (PSI) for drift monitoring, yet their theoretical foundations remain disconnected. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-15 Agus Sudjianto , Denis Burakov

A unified combinatorial definition of the information content and entropy of different types of patterns, compatible with the traditional concepts of information and entropy, going beyond the limitations of Shannon information interpretable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zsolt Pocze

Given a pure state vector |x> and a density matrix rho, the function p(x|rho)=<x|rho|x> defines a probability density on the space of pure states parameterised by density matrices. The associated Fisher-Rao information measure is used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Dorje C. Brody

During a spontaneous change, a macroscopic physical system will evolve towards a macro-state with more realizations. This observation is at the basis of the Statistical Mechanical version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and it provides…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mengjie Zu , Arunkumar Bupathy , Daan Frenkel , Srikanth Sastry

The introduced entropy functional's (EF) information measure of random process integrates multiple information contributions along the process trajectories, evaluating both the states' and between states' bound information connections. This…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-06-04 Vladimir S. Lerner

The information entropy of a nuclear density distribution is calculated for a number of nuclei. Various phenomenological models for the density distribution using different geometry are employed. Nuclear densities calculated within various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 G. A. Lalazissis , S. E. Massen , C. P. Panos , S. S. Dimitrova

Given an arbitrary continuous probability density function, it is introduced a conjugated probability density, which is defined through the Shannon information associated with its cumulative distribution function. These new densities are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-26 H. M. de Oliveira , R. J. Cintra

This paper concerns estimating a probability density function $f$ based on iid observations from $g(x)=W^{-1} w(x) f(x)$, where the weight function $w$ and the total weight $W=\int w(x) f(x) dx$ may not be known. The length-biased and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Robert M. Mnatsakanov , Frits H. Ruymgaart

We apply information theoretic entropies of coordinate and velocity distributions in quantum mechanics for the description of the strong field ionization process. The approach is based on the properties of the entropies used in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 I. A. Ivanov , Chang Hee Nam , Kyung Taec Kim

R\'enyi entropy of order \alpha is a general measure of entropy. In this paper we derive estimations for the R\'enyi entropy of the mixture of sources in terms of the entropy of the single sources. These relations allow to compute the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor

In this paper the author analyses the weighted Renyi entropy in order to derive several inequalities in weighted case. Furthermore, using the proposed notions $\alpha$-th generalized derivation and ($\alpha$; p)-th weighted Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

The exact common information between a set of random variables $X_1,...,X_n$ is defined as the minimum entropy of a shared random variable that allows for the exact distributive simulation of $X_1,...,X_n$. It has been established that, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Osama Hanna , Xinlin Li , Suhas Diggavi , Christina Fragouli

Using the theory of Kolmogorov complexity the notion of facticity {\phi}(x) of a string is defined as the amount of self-descriptive information it contains. It is proved that (under reasonable assumptions: the existence of an empty machine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Pieter Adriaans

There is a random variable (X) with a determined outcome (i.e., X = x0), p(x0) = 1. Consider x0 to have a discrete uniform distribution over the integer interval [1, s], where the size of the sample space (s) = 1, in the initial state, such…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-01 Laurence F Lacey

Prompted by the realisation that the statistical entropy of an ideal gas in the micro-canonical ensemble should not fluctuate or change over time, the meaning of the H-theorem is re-interpreted from the perspective of information theory in…

General Physics · Physics 2013-01-09 David Sands , Jeremy Dunning-Davies