Nonextensive statistical mechanics and central limit theorems I - Convolution of independent random variables and q-product

Abstract

In this article we review the standard versions of the Central and of the Levy-Gnedenko Limit Theorems, and illustrate their application to the convolution of independent random variables associated with the distribution known as q-Gaussian. This distribution emerges upon extremisation of the nonadditive entropy, basis of nonextensive statistical mechanics. It has a finite variance for q < 5/3, and an infinite one for q > 5/3. We exhibit that, in the case of (standard) independence, the q-Gaussian has either the Gaussian (if q < 5/3) or the a-stable Levy distributions (if q > 5/3) as its attractor in probability space. Moreover, we review a generalisation of the product, the q-product, which plays a central role in the approach of the specially correlated variables emerging within the nonextensive theory.

13 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the conference CTNEXT07, Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity, Catania, Italy, 1-5 July 2007, Eds. S. Abe, H.J. Herrmann, P. Quarati, A. Rapisarda and C. Tsallis (American Institute of Physics, 2008) in press

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