We present a first physical application of Tsallis’ generalized entropy to the thermodynamics of self-gravitating systems. The stellar system confined in a spherical cavity of radius re exhibits an instability, so-called gravothermal catastrophe, which has been originally investigated by Antonov (Vest.Leningrad Gros.Univ. 7 (1962) 135) and Lynden-Bell & Wood (Mon.Not.R.Astron.Soc. 138 (1968) 49...

In this paper, we study the stability under convolution of the maximizing distributions of the Tsallis entropy under energy constraint (called hereafter Tsallis distributions). These distributions are shown to obey three important properties: a stochastic representation property, an orthogonal invariance property and a duality property. As a consequence of these properties, the behaviour of Tsa...

In this study, thermoluminescence decay is investigated within Tsallis thermostatistics(TT). We belive that this is the first attempt to handle themoluminescence decay process within TT.

Traditionally, the Method of (Shannon-Kullback’s) Relative Entropy Maximization (REM) is considered with linear moment constraints. In this work, the method is studied under frequency moment constraints which are non-linear in probabilities. The constraints challenge some justifications of REM since a) axiomatic systems are developed for classical linear moment constraints, b) the feasible set ...

Image segmentation plays an important role in medical imaging applications. Therefore, accurate methods are needed for the successful segmentation of medical images for diagnosis and detection of various diseases. In this paper, we have used maximum entropy to achieve image segmentation. Maximum entropy has been calculated using Shannon, Renyi and Tsallis entropies. This work has novelty based ...

This article extends the non-extensive entropy of Tsallis and uses this entropy to model an energy producing system in an absorbing heat bath. This modified non-extensive entropy is superficially identical to the one proposed by Tsallis, but also incorporates a “hidden” parameter that provides greater flexibility for modeling energy constraints. This modified non-extensive entropy also leads to...

It is shown that distributions arising in Rényi-Tsallis maximum entropy setting are related to the Generalized Pareto Distributions (GPD) that are widely used for modeling the tails of distributions. The relevance of such modelization, as well as the ubiquity of GPD in practical situations follows from Balkema-De Haan-Pickands theorem on the distribution of excesses (over a high threshold). We ...

Connections between Tsallis' formalisms employing the standard linear average energy and ones employing the normalized q-average energy Abstract Tsallis' thermostatistics with the standard linear average energy is revisited by employing S 2−q , which is the Tsallis entropy with q replaced by 2 − q. We explore the connections among the S 2−q approach and the other different versions of Tsal-lis ...

It is demonstrated clearly that for the same classical generalized system the Tsallis power-laws with both the 1 > q and the 1 < q can be induced by the constraint of the constant harmonic mean for the so-called reciprocal energies r E and at the same time the Boltzmann distribution or the negative exponential probability distribution can be generated with the constraint of the constant arithme...