Entropy evolution at generic power-law edge of chaos

Abstract

For strongly chaotic classical systems, a basic statistical–mechanical connection is provided by the averaged Pesin-like identity (the production rate of the Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy SBG=−∑i=1Wpilnpi equals the sum of the positive Lyapunov exponents). In contrast, at a generic edge of chaos (vanishing maximal Lyapunov exponent) we have a subexponential divergence with time of initially close orbits. This typically occurs in complex natural, artificial and social systems and, for a wide class of them, the appropriate entropy is the nonadditive one Sqe=[Formula presented](S1=SBG) with qe≤1. For such weakly chaotic systems, power-law divergences emerge involving a set of microscopic indices {qk}’s and the associated generalized Lyapunov coefficients. We establish the connection between these quantities and (qe,Kqe), where Kqe is the Sqe entropy production rate.