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In this manuscript we discuss the notion of (statistical) independence embedded in its historical context. We focus in particular on its appearance and role in number theory, concomitantly exploring the intimate connection of independence…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Gunther Leobacher , Joscha Prochno

These expository notes propose to follow, across fields, some aspects of the concept of entropy. Starting from the work of Boltzmann in the kinetic theory of gases, various universes are visited, including Markov processes and their…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Djalil Chafaï

We develop entropy and variance results for the product of independent identically distributed random variables on Lie groups. Our results apply to the study of stationary measures in various contexts.

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Samuel Kittle , Constantin Kogler

The maximum entropy principle from statistical mechanics states that a closed system attains an equilibrium distribution that maximizes its entropy. We first show that for graphs with fixed number of edges one can define a stochastic edge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesse S. A. Bridgewater , P. Oscar Boykin , Vwani P. Roychowdhury

Graphical models with bi-directed edges (<->) represent marginal independence: the absence of an edge between two vertices indicates that the corresponding variables are marginally independent. In this paper, we consider maximum likelihood…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-12-12 Mathias Drton , Thomas S. Richardson

The foundations of the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) distributions for describing equilibrium statistical mechanics of systems are examined. Broadly, they fall into: (i) probabilistic paaroaches based on the principle of equal a priori probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Rajagopal , Sumiyoshi Abe

We review some classic works on ground state entanglement entropy in $(1+1)$-dimensional free scalar field theory. We point out identifications between the methods for the calculation of entanglement entropy and we show how the formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras

A sharp, distribution free, non-asymptotic result is proved for the concentration of a random function around the mean function, when the randomization is generated by a finite sequence of independent data and the random functions satisfy…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Thomas Anton , Sutanuka Roy , Rabee Tourky

Relative entropy is a fundamental class of distances between probability distributions, with widespread applications in probability theory, statistics, and machine learning. In this work, we study relative entropy from a categorical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ralph Sarkis , Fabio Zanasi

The variational lower bound (a.k.a. ELBO or free energy) is the central objective for many established as well as for many novel algorithms for unsupervised learning. Such algorithms usually increase the bound until parameters have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Jörg Lücke , Jan Warnken

We consider critical models in one dimension. We study the ground state in thermodynamic limit [infinite lattice]. Following Bennett, Bernstein, Popescu, and Schumacher, we use the entropy of a sub-system as a measure of entanglement. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Vladimir Korepin

We consider the problem of minimizing a generalized relative entropy, with respect to a reference diffusion law, over the set of path-measures with fully prescribed marginal distributions. When dealing with the actual relative entropy,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Joaquín Fontbona

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic stability of finite-dimensional stochastic integrable Hamiltonian systems via information entropy. Specifically, we establish the asymptotic vanishing of Shannon entropy difference (with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Chen Wang , Yong Li

The specific relative entropy, introduced by N. Gantert, allows to quantify the discrepancy between the laws of potentially mutually singular measures. It appears naturally as the large deviations rate function in a randomized version of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Clara Unterberger

We briefly review Boltzmann-Gibbs and nonextensive statistical mechanics as well as their connections with Fokker-Planck equations and with existing central limit theorems. We then provide some hints that might pave the road to the proof of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-29 Constantino Tsallis

Dependence among marginally constrained observations can break a finite-sample barrier. To formalize this phenomenon, we introduce the \emph{minimum list entropy coupling} $H(P\|Q_1,\dots,Q_m)$, the minimum conditional entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shahab Asoodeh , Jun Chen

The paper gives a general condition on permutations, condition under which a semicircular matrix is free independent, or asymptotically free independent from the semicircular matrix obtained by permuting its entries. In particular, it is…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Mihai Popa , Zhiwei Hao

We present a detailed description of the essentially entropic lattice Boltzmann model. The entropic lattice Boltzmann model guarantees unconditional numerical stability by iteratively solving the nonlinear entropy evolution equation. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Mohammad Atif , Praveen Kumar Kolluru , Santosh Ansumali

The Boltzmann entropy $S^{(B)}$ is true in the case of equal probability of all microstates of a system. In the opposite case it should be averaged over all microstates that gives rise to the Boltzmann--Shannon entropy (BSE). Maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Bashkirov

In this study, we analyze a novel dynamical system inspired by Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture, modeling the spacings between nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function via the GUE kernel $g(u) = 1 - \left( \frac{\sin(\pi…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zeraoulia Rafik , Pedro Caceres