Fisher's information measure in a Tsallis' nonextensive setting and its application to diffusive process

F. Pennini and A. Plastino

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 247, issue 1, 559-569

Abstract: Fisher's information measures, as adapted to a nonextensive (Tsallis) environment, are discussed. For systems of particles that are in a general state of motion a lower bound to these information measures is derived with the help of a recently established upper bound to the entropy increase. This lower bound to the information measure is the basis for a variational principle devised to determine unknown probability distributions. In the important instance of diffusion process we show that trying to ascertain which is the probability distribution that maximizes Fisher's information sheds some light on the meaning of Tsallis' q-parameter. We discuss applications to cosmological models that seem to suggest that a non-extensive thermostatistics with q = −1 provides an adequate scenario for discussing gravitation.

Keywords: 05.20.-y; 89.70.+c; 98.80.Hw; 95.30. Sf; Information measure; Tsallis environment; Gravitation; Cosmological models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00395-6

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