Nonadditive Entropies and Complex Systems

Andrea Rapisarda; Stefan Thurner; Constantino Tsallis

doi:10.3390/e21050538

Nonadditive Entropies and Complex Systems

Entropy (Basel). 2019 May 27;21(5):538. doi: 10.3390/e21050538.

Authors

Andrea Rapisarda^{1

2}, Stefan Thurner^{2

3

4}, Constantino Tsallis^{2

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and INFN Sezione di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy.
² Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstrasse 39, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
³ Section for the Science of Complex Systems, CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
⁵ Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas and National Institute of Science and Technology of Complex Systems, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abstract

An entropic functional S is said additive if it satisfies, for any two probabilistically independent systems A and B, that S ( A + B ) = S ( A ) + S ( B ) [...].

Keywords: beyond Boltzmann–Gibbs–Shannon; complex systems; nonadditive entropies; nonextensive statistical mechanics.

Publication types

Editorial