C. Beck, E. G. D. Cohen
Published 2002-05-06, updated 2002-11-14Version 2
We consider nonequilibrium systems with complex dynamics in stationary states with large fluctuations of intensive quantities (e.g. the temperature, chemical potential, or energy dissipation) on long time scales. Depending on the statistical properties of the fluctuations, we obtain different effective statistical mechanics descriptions. Tsallis statistics is one, but other classes of generalized statistics are obtained as well. We show that for small variance of the fluctuations all these different statistics behave in a universal way.
Comments: 12 pages /a few more references and comments added in revised version
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