Information concerning important details of an ecosystem's evolution are shown to be contained in an appropriately constructed power spectrum. In particular, it provides an answer to the question of just why power-law behavior vanishes in the absence of Darwinian competition.

We discuss here the use of generalized forms of entropy, taken as information measures, to characterize phase transitions and critical behavior in thermodynamic systems. Our study is based on geometric considerations pertaining to the space of parameters that describe statistical mechanics...

We study the classical statistical mechanics of a phase–space curve. This unveils a mechanism that, via the associated entropic force, provides us with a simple realization of effects such as confinement, hard core, and asymptotic freedom. Additionally, we obtain negative specific heats, a...

Variational principles for the rate distortion (RD) theory in lossy compression are formulated within the ambit of the generalized nonextensive statistics of Tsallis, for values of the nonextensivity parameter satisfying 0<q<1 and q>1. Alternating minimization numerical schemes to evaluate the nonextensive...</q<1>

We extend to general divergenceless systems the dynamical thermostatting approach to statistical ensembles proposed by Kusnezov, Bulgac and Bauer (KBB). Furthermore, a new family of dynamical systems inspired by the KBB method is introduced, and some of its properties considered.

Tsallis’ q-triplet [C. Tsallis, Dynamical scenario for nonextensive statistical mechanics, Physica A 340 (2004) 1–10] is the best empirical quantifier of nonextensivity. Here we study it with reference to an experimental time-series related to the daily depth-values of the stratospheric...

The connection between Fisher's ideas concerning information measures and nonextensive thermostatistics (NET) is investigated. The Cramer-Rao bound is generalized to a NET environment. A relationship between Fisher's information and Tsallis' entropy is established.

An analysis of the thermodynamic behavior of quantum systems can be performed from a geometrical perspective investigating the structure of the state space. We have developed such an analysis for nonextensive thermostatistical frameworks, making use of the q-divergence derived from Tsallis’...

We consider a monoparametric family of reaction–diffusion equations endowed with both a nonlinear diffusion term and a nonlinear reaction one that possess exact time-dependent particular solutions of the Tsallis’ maximum entropy (MaxEnt) form. The evolution of these solutions is governed by...

As a part of the so-called Wheeler program, we present an information theoretic treatment for phase space distributions.