What do generalized entropies look like? An axiomatic approach for complex, non-ergodic systems

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2011-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/1104.2070v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, 2 figures, 4 theorems

Scientific paper

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 systems the so called separation axiom (Shannon-Khinchin axiom 4) will in general not be valid. We show that when this axiom is violated the entropy takes a more general form, $S_{c,d}\propto \sum_i ^W \Gamma(d+1, 1- c \log p_i)$, where $c$ and $d$ are scaling exponents and $\Gamma(a,b)$ is the incomplete gamma function. The exponents $(c,d)$ define equivalence classes for all interacting and non interacting systems and unambiguously characterize any statistical system in its thermodynamic limit. The proof is possible because of two newly discovered scaling laws which any entropic form has to fulfill, if the first three Shannon-Khinchin axioms hold. $(c,d)$ can be used to define equivalence classes of statistical systems. A series of known entropies can be classified in terms of these equivalence classes. We show that the corresponding distribution functions are special forms of Lambert-${\cal W}$ exponentials containing -- as special cases -- Boltzmann, stretched exponential and Tsallis distributions (power-laws). In the derivation we assume trace form entropies, $S=\sum_i g(p_i)$, with $g$ some function, however more general entropic forms can be classified along the same scaling analysis.

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