Essential discreteness in generalized thermostatistics with non-logarithmic entropy

Abstract

It is shown by simple and straightforward considerations that discreteness of basic physical variables is, at least, essential for generalized statistical mechanics with non-logarithmic entropy to be thermodynamically applicable to classical systems. As a result, continuous Hamiltonian systems with long-range interactions and the so-called q-Gaussian momentum distributions are seen to be outside the scope of nonextensive statistical mechanics.