Tsallis entropy composition and the Heisenberg group

Nikos Kalogeropoulos

Published 2013-01-01Version 1

We present an embedding of the Tsallis entropy into the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group, in order to understand the meaning of generalized independence as encoded in the Tsallis entropy composition property. We infer that the Tsallis entropy composition induces fractal properties on the underlying Euclidean space. Using a theorem of Milnor/Wolf/Tits/Gromov, we justify why the underlying configuration/phase space of systems described by the Tsallis entropy has polynomial growth for both discrete and Riemannian cases. We provide a geometric framework that elucidates Abe's formula for the Tsallis entropy, in terms the Pansu derivative of a map between sub-Riemannian spaces.