On the putative essential discreteness of q-generalized entropies
Abstract
It has been argued in [EPL 90 (2010) 50004], entitled Essential discreteness in generalized thermostatistics with non-logarithmic entropy, that "continuous Hamiltonian systems with long-range interactions and the so-called q-Gaussian momentum distributions are seen to be outside the scope of non-extensive statistical mechanics". The arguments are clever and appealing. We show here that, however, some mathematical subtleties render them unconvincing
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