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Constantino Tsallis1, Rute Oliveira2
1Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas and National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Abstract:
In the realm of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics, there are three well known isomorphic connections with random geometry, namely, (i) the Kasteleyn-Fortuin theorem, which connects the λ → 1 limit of the λ-state Potts ferromagnet with bond percolation, (ii) the isomorphism, which connects the λ → 0 limit of the λ-state Potts ferromagnet with random resistor networks, and (iii) the de Gennes isomorphism, which connects the n → 0 limit of the n-vector ferromagnet with self-avoiding random walk in linear polymers. We provide here strong numerical evidence that a similar isomorphism appears to emerge connecting the energy q-exponential distribution ∝ e (with q = 4 / 3 and β ω = 10 / 3) optimizing, under simple constraints, the nonadditive entropy S with a specific geographic growth random model based on preferential attachment through exponentially distributed weighted links, ω being the characteristic weight.
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