Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
11011967 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2019 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
In this effort we show that the Legendre reciprocity relations, thermodynamics' essential formal feature, are respected by general classic entropic functionals, even if they are NOT of trace-form nature, in contrast with Shannon's or Tsallis' cases. Further, with reference to the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) variational process, we encounter important cases, relevant to physical applications currently discussed in the research literature, in which the associated reciprocity relations exhibit anomalies. We show that these anomalies can be cured by carefully discriminating between apparently equivalent entropic forms.
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