Series: SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Pub. Date: July 2004 Publisher: Oxford University Press Cloth ISBN 0195159764 List Price $69.50 Paper ISBN 0195159772 List Price $39.95 Order Info More Info: Back of Book Info Table of Contents Preface Series Info Return to book list

Preface, Murray Gell-Mann and Constantino Tsallis ... p. xiii

Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Construction and Physical Interpretation, Constantino Tsallis ... p. 1

Generalized Nonadditive Information Theory and Quantum Entanglement, Sumiyoshi Abe ... p. 55

Unifying Laws in Multidisciplinary Power-Law Phenomena: Fixed-Point Universality and Nonextensive Entropy, Alberto Robledo ... p. 63

Nonextensive Entropies and Sensitivity to Initial Conditions of Complex Systems, Marcelo L. Lyra ... p. 79

Numerical Analysis of Conservative Maps: A Possible Foundation of Nonextensive Phenomena, Fulvio Baldovin ... p. 99

Nonextensive Effects in Hamiltonian Systems, Andrea Rapisarda and Vito Latora ... p. 113

A Hamiltonian Approach for Tsallis Thermostatistics, J. S. de Andrade, Jr., M. P. Almeida, A. A. Moreira A. B. Adib, and G. A. Farias ... p. 123

Nonequilibrium Systems, Robin Stinchombe ... p. 139

Temperature Fluctuations and Mixtures of Equilibrium States in the Canonical Ensemble, Hugo Touchette ... p. 159

On the Role of Non-Gaussian Noises on Noise-Induced Phenomena, Horacio Wio ... p. 177

A Dripping Faucet as a Nonextensive System, T. J. P. Penna, J. C. Sartorelli, R. D. Pinto, and W. M. Gonc{c}alves ... p. 195

Power-Law Persistence in the Atmosphere: An Ideal Test Bed for Climate Models, Armin Bunde, Jan Eichner, Rathinaswamy Govindan, Shlomo Havlin, Eva Koscielny-Bunde, Diego Rybski, and Dmitry Vjushin ... p. 207

The Living State of Matter: Between Noise and Homeorrhetic Constraints, Marcello Buiatti, Patrizia Bogani, Claudia Acquisti, Giuseppe Mersi, and Leone Fronzoni ... p. 221

Plant Spread Dynamics and Spatial Patterns in Forest Ecology, Sergio A. Cannas, Diana E. Marco, Sergio A. P'aez, and Marcelo A. Montemurro ... p. 243

Generalized Information Measures and the Analysis of Brain Electrical Signals, A. Plastino, M. T. Martin, and O. Rosso ... p. 261

Nonextensive Diffusion Entropy Analysis and Teen Birth Phenomena, N. Scafetta, P. Grigolini, P. Hamilton, and B. J. West ... p. 295

The Pricing of Stock Options, Lisa Borland ... p. 305

Distributions of High-Frequency Stock-Market Observables, Roberto Osorio, Lisa Borland, and Constantino Tsallis ... p. 321

Entropic Subextensivity in Language and Learning, Lukasz Debowski ... p. 335

A Generalization of the Zipf-Mandelbrot Law in Linguistics, Marcelo A. Montemurro ... p. 347

Coarse-Graining, Scaling, and Hierarchies, Juan P'erez-Mercader ... p. 357

The Architecture of Complex Systems, Vito Latora and Massimo Marchiori ... p. 377

Effective Complexity, Murray Gell-Mann and Seth Lloyd ... p. 387

Index ... p. 399