Artículo
Entropic upper bound on gravitational binding energy
Fecha de publicación:
07/2011
Editorial:
Elsevier Science
Revista:
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
ISSN:
0378-4371
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
We prove that the gravitational binding energy Ω of a self gravitating system described by a mass density distribution ρ(x) admits an upper bound B[ρ(x)] given by a simple function of an appropriate, non-additive Tsallis' power-law entropic functional Sq evaluated on the density ρ. The density distributions that saturate the entropic bound have the form of isotropic q-Gaussian distributions. These maximizer distributions correspond to the Plummer density profile, well-known in astrophysics. A heuristic scaling argument is advanced suggesting that the entropic bound B[ρ(x)] is unique, in the sense that it is unlikely that exhaustive entropic upper bounds not based on the alluded Sq entropic measure exit. The present findings provide a new link between the physics of self gravitating systems, on one hand, and the statistical formalism associated with non-additive, power-law entropic measures, on the other hand. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Palabras clave:
ENTROPIC BOUND TO BINDING ENERGY
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GRAVITATION
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TSALLIS' STATISTICS
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Articulos(CCT - LA PLATA)
Articulos de CTRO.CIENTIFICO TECNOL.CONICET - LA PLATA
Articulos de CTRO.CIENTIFICO TECNOL.CONICET - LA PLATA
Citación
Vignat, C.; Plastino, Ángel Luis; Plastino, Ángel Ricardo; Entropic upper bound on gravitational binding energy; Elsevier Science; Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications; 390; 13; 7-2011; 2491-2496
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