Maximum entropy with fluctuating constraints: The example of K-distributions
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Maximum entropy with fluctuating constraints The example of K-distributions
We indicate that in a maximum entropy setting, the thermodynamic β and the observation contraint are linked, so that fluctuations of the latter imposes fluctuations of the former. This gives an alternate viewpoint to ‘superstatistics’. While a Gamma model for fluctuations of the β parameter gives the so-called Tsallis distributions, we work out the case of a Gamma model for fluctuations of the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physics Letters A
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0375-9601
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.04.016