Talk:Tsallis entropy

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Nanite in topic Motivation for use

Tsallis Pages Expansion

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See main thread at Talk:Tsallis distribution#Tsallis PagesPurple Post-its (talk) 14:10, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Motivation for use

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Inspired by this stackexchange discussion, I want to ask: why would I want to use an entropy that is not additive for independent subsystems? It seems that I could get into a big mess because the entropy would depend on how I decided to divide a given system into subsystems (a totally arbitrary choice). It's not clear why the Gibbs entropy needs to be "fixed" in this way. Nanite (talk) 14:13, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Reply