On the derivation of power-law distribut
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Rudolf Hanel; Stefan Thurner
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We show that within classical statistical mechanics, without taking the thermodynamic limit, the most general Boltzmann factor for the canonical ensemble is a q-exponential function. The only assumption here is that microcanonical distributions have to be separated from the total system energy, whic