Nonadditive Entropies and Complex Systems
Andrea Rapisarda 
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and INFN Sezione di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
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Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstrasse 39, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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Section for the Science of Complex Systems, CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas and National Institute of Science and Technology of Complex Systems, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Entropy 2019, 21(5), 538; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21050538
Received: 13 May 2019 / Accepted: 13 May 2019 / Published: 27 May 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonadditive Entropies and Complex Systems)
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An entropic functional S is said additive if it satisfies, for any two probabilistically independent systems A and B, that
Keywords:
complex systems; nonadditive entropies; nonextensive statistical mechanics; beyond Boltzmann–Gibbs–Shannon
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Rapisarda, A.; Thurner, S.; Tsallis, C. Nonadditive Entropies and Complex Systems. Entropy 2019, 21, 538.
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