%0 Journal Article
%A Sicuro, Gabriele
%A Tempesta, Piergiulio
%T Groups, information theory, and Einstein's likelihood principle
%D 2016
%@ 1539-3755
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24471
%X We propose a unifying picture where the notion of generalized entropy is related to information theory by means of a group-theoretical approach. The group structure comes from the requirement that an entropy be well defined with respect to the composition of independent systems, in the context of a recently proposed generalization of the Shannon-Khinchin axioms. We associate to each member of a large class of entropies a generalized information measure, satisfying the additivity property on a set of independent systems as a consequence of the underlying group law. At the same time, we also show that Einstein's likelihood function naturally emerges as a byproduct of our informational interpretation of (generally nonadditive) entropies. These results confirm the adequacy of composable entropies both in physical and social science contexts.
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