Tsallis and Rényi entropies in fractional diffusion and entropy production

Christopher Essex, Christian Schulzky, Astrid Franz and Karl Heinz Hoffmann

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2000, vol. 284, issue 1, 299-308

Abstract: The entropy production rate for fractional diffusion processes using Shannon entropy was calculated previously, which showed an apparently counter intuitive increase with the transition from dissipative diffusion behaviour to reversible wave propagation. Rényi and Tsallis entropies, which have an additional parameter q generalizing the Shannon case (q=1), are shown here to have similar counter intuitive behaviours. However, the issue can be successfully treated in exactly the same manner as with Shannon entropy for q being not too large (i.e., generalizations near the Shannon case), whereas for larger q the Rényi and Tsallis entropies behave in a different way.

Keywords: Fractional diffusion equation; Irreversible processes; Entropy production; Rényi entropy; Tsallis entropy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00174-6

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