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Abstract

The concepts of the ldquoquantity of heatrdquo and ldquoworkrdquo are deduced in the context of non-extensive statistical mechanics, following steps parallel to those employed in extensive statistical mechanics.

Keywords:  heat - entropy - Kullback-Leibler relative entropy - Boltzmann-Gibbs and Tsallis approaches

Communicated by M. Sugiyama
Received: 31 January 2003, Accepted: 6 May 2003, Published online: 21 November 2003
PACS:   05.70.-a, 05.30.-d, 05.90. + m

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