Abstract
The intriguing and still open question concerning the composition law of -entropy with and is here reconsidered and solved. It is shown that, for a statistical system described by the probability distribution , made up of two statistically independent subsystems, described through the probability distributions and , respectively, with , the joint entropy can be obtained starting from the and entropies, and additionally from the entropic functionals and being the -Napier number. The composition law of the -entropy is given in closed form and emerges as a one-parameter generalization of the ordinary additivity law of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy recovered in the limit.
- Received 2 March 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.052112
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