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Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2005 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 5 | Page No.: 920-927
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2005.920.927
Concerning Tsallis`s Condition of Pseudo-additivity as a Definition of Non-extensivity and the Use of the Maximum Entropy Formalism
B.H. Lavenda and J. Dunning- Davies

Abstract: The pseudo-additive relation satisfied by the Tsallis entropy is not linked with the super- or sub-additive properties of the entropy. These latter properties, like concavity and convexity, are fundamentally geometric inequalities and cannot be reduced to equalities. The pseudo-additivity relation is, rather, a functional equation that determines the functional forms of the random entropies. A similar pseudo-additive relation is satisfied by the Arimoto entropy which is a first-order homogeneous form. No conclusions, based on the pseudo-additive functional equation, may be drawn about the extensive nature of systems from either the Tsallis or Arimoto entropy. Further, it is shown that Tsallis` statistical thermodynamic formulation of the non-additive entropy of degree-α is neither correct nor self-consistent.

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B.H. Lavenda and J. Dunning- Davies, 2005. Concerning Tsallis`s Condition of Pseudo-additivity as a Definition of Non-extensivity and the Use of the Maximum Entropy Formalism. Journal of Applied Sciences, 5: 920-927.

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