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We describe in detail two numerical simulation methods valid to study systems whose thermostatistics is described by generalized entropies, such as Tsallis. The methods are useful for applications to non-trivial interacting systems with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Salazar , R. Toral

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

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

We consider a family of probability distributions depending on a real parameter and including the binomial, Poisson and negative binomial distributions. The corresponding index of coincidence satisfies a Heun differential equation and is a…

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

R\'enyi divergence is related to R\'enyi entropy much like information divergence (also called Kullback-Leibler divergence or relative entropy) is related to Shannon's entropy, and comes up in many settings. It was introduced by R\'enyi as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-28 Tim van Erven , Peter Harremoës

Tsallis and R\'{e}nyi entropies, which are monotone transformations of each other, are deformations of the celebrated Shannon entropy. Maximization of these deformed entropies, under suitable constraints, leads to the $q$-exponential family…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Jun Zhang

The Renyi entropy is a generalisation of the Shannon entropy that is sensitive to the fine details of a probability distribution. We present results for the Renyi entropy of the totally asymmetric exclusion process (TASEP). We calculate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-10 Anthony J. Wood , Richard A. Blythe , Martin R. Evans

The Renyi entropies constitute a family of information measures that generalizes the well-known Shannon entropy, inheriting many of its properties. They appear in the form of unconditional and conditional entropies, relative entropies or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Martin Müller-Lennert , Frédéric Dupuis , Oleg Szehr , Serge Fehr , Marco Tomamichel

In this paper, we study entropic uncertainty relations on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and provide several tighter bounds for multi-measurements, with some of them also valid for R\'{e}nyi and Tsallis entropies besides the Shannon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-02 Yunlong Xiao , Naihuan Jing , Shao-Ming Fei , Tao Li , Xianqing Li-Jost , Teng Ma , Zhi-Xi Wang

Some preliminary evidence suggests the conjecture that the collective behaviour of systems having long-range interactions may be described more effectively by the Tsallis rather than by the Boltzmann/Gibbs/Shannon entropy. To this end, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-19 Nikos Kalogeropoulos

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

Dimension reduction, widely used in science, maps high-dimensional data into low-dimensional space. We investigate a basic mathematical model underlying the techniques of stochastic neighborhood embedding (SNE) and its popular variant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-26 Ben Weinkove

This work provides data-processing and majorization inequalities for $f$-divergences, and it considers some of their applications to coding problems. This work also provides tight bounds on the R\'{e}nyi entropy of a function of a discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Igal Sason

A class of estimators of the R\'{e}nyi and Tsallis entropies of an unknown distribution $f$ in $\mathbb{R}^m$ is presented. These estimators are based on the $k$th nearest-neighbor distances computed from a sample of $N$ i.i.d. vectors with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-16 Nikolai Leonenko , Luc Pronzato , Vippal Savani

It is shown using experimental and numerical data that within the traditional inertial subrange defined by where the third order structure function is linear that the higher order structure function scaling exponents for longitudinal and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 Robert M. Kerr , Maurice Meneguzzi , Toshiyuki Gotoh

Consensus is a well-studied problem in distributed sensing, computation and control, yet deriving useful and easily computable bounds on the rate of convergence to consensus remains a challenge. This paper discusses the use of seminorms for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Ron Ofir , Ji Liu , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson

We present universal relations between entanglement entropy, which quantifies the quantum correlation between subsystems, and the elastic cross section, which is the primary observable for high energy particle scattering, by employing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-31 Ian Low , Zhewei Yin

Shannon and Khinchin showed that assuming four information theoretic axioms the entropy must be of Boltzmann-Gibbs type, $S=-\sum_i p_i \log p_i$. Here we note that in physical systems one of these axioms may be violated. For non-ergodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Stefan Thurner , Rudolf Hanel

We calculate analytically the Renyi entropy for the zeta-urn model with a Gibbs measure definition of the micro-state probabilities. This allows us to obtain the singularities in the R\'enyi entropy from those of the thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Piotr Bialas , Zdzislaw Burda , Desmond A. Johnston

Preserving biodiversity and ecosystem stability is a challenge that can be pursued through modern statistical mechanics modeling. Here we introduce a variational maximum entropy-based algorithm to evaluate the entropy in a minimal ecosystem…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Mattia Miotto , Lorenzo Monacelli