{ "id": "1309.5645", "version": "v3", "published": "2013-09-22T20:32:47.000Z", "updated": "2013-10-16T12:39:36.000Z", "title": "Possible Divergences in Tsallis' Thermostatistics", "authors": [ "A. Plastino", "M. C. Rocca" ], "comment": "Text has changed", "journal": "Europhysics Letters: 104; 60003, 2013", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "Trying to compute the nonextensive q-partition function for the Harmonic Oscillator in more than two dimensions, one encounters that it diverges, which poses a serious threat to the whole of Tsallis' thermostatistics. Appeal to the so called q-Laplace Transform, where the q-exponential function plays the role of the ordinary exponential, is seen to save the day.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2013-10-16T12:39:36.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "thermostatistics", "divergences", "q-exponential function plays", "harmonic oscillator", "nonextensive q-partition function" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1209/0295-5075/104/60003", "journal": "EPL (Europhysics Letters)", "year": 2013, "month": "Dec", "volume": 104, "number": 6, "pages": 60003 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013EL....10460003P" } } }