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Unique additive information measures—Boltzmann–Gibbs–Shannon, Fisher and beyond

✍ Scribed by P. Ván


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
130 KB
Volume
365
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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✦ Synopsis


It is proved that the only additive and isotropic information measure that can depend on the probability distribution and also on its first derivative is a linear combination of the Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon and Fisher information measures. Power-law equilibrium distributions are found as a result of the interaction of the two terms. The case of second order derivative dependence is investigated and a corresponding additive information measure is given.