Toward a relative -entropy
May 5, 201923 pages
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- Physica A 545 (2020) 123270
- Published: May 1, 2020
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- 1905.01672 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
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We address the question and related controversy of the formulation of the q -entropy, and its relative entropy counterpart, for models described by continuous (non-discrete) sets of variables. We notice that an Lp normalized functional proposed by Lutwak–Yang–Zhang (LYZ), which is essentially a variation of a properly normalized relative Rényi entropy up to a logarithm, has extremal properties that make it an attractive candidate which can be used to construct such a relative q -entropy. We comment on the extremizing probability distributions of this LYZ functional, its relation to the escort distributions, a generalized Fisher information and the corresponding Cramér–Rao inequality. We point out potential physical implications of the LYZ entropic functional and of its extremal distributions.Note:
- Minor changes in this version. 23 pages. No figures. LaTeX2e. To be published in Physica A
- q -entropy
- Tsallis entropy
- Nonadditive entropy
- Nonextensive thermostatistics
- Complexity
- [formula omitted]-entropy
- entropy
- information theory
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