Factorization and escorting in the game-theoretical approach to non-extensive entropy measures

Flemming Topsøe

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2006, vol. 365, issue 1, 91-95

Abstract: The game-theoretical approach to non-extensive entropy measures of statistical physics is based on an abstract measure of complexity from which the entropy measure is derived in a natural way. A wide class of possible complexity measures is considered and a property of factorization, apparently related to escorting, is investigated. It is shown that only those complexity measures which are connected with Tsallis entropy have the factorization property.

Keywords: Measure of complexity; Factorization; Escort probabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.024

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