Consistency of the structure of Legendre transform in thermodynamics with the Kolmogorov-Nagumo average
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2016
abstract:
We show the robustness of the structure of Legendre transform in thermodynamics against the replacement of the standard linear average with the Kolmogorov-Nagumo nonlinear average to evaluate the expectation values of the macroscopic physical observables. The consequence of this statement is twofold: 1) the relationships between the expectation values and the corresponding Lagrange multipliers still hold in the present formalism; 2) the universality of the Gibbs equation as well as other thermodynamic relations are unaffected by the structure of the average used in the theory.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
Kolmogorov-Nagumo average; Rényi entropy; Sharma-Mittal entropy; Sharma-Taneja-Mittal entropy; Structure of Legendre transform
List of contributors:
Scarfone, ANTONIO MARIA
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