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Indistinguishability of particles or independence of the random variables?

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After establishing the formula of information, we turn to two cases: to the independent case and to the dependent case. If the characteristics of the particles (e.g., the energy) as random variables are independent, we come in the discrete case to the Boltzmann distribution, while in the continuous case we come to the Gibbs formula-irrespectively of whether the particles are distinguishable or not. Our effort is nimed at clarity of the ideas, not at their mathematical completeness.

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Supported by the Hungarian National Foundation for Scientific Research (grant No. T 016384 and No. 4007-016237)

Proceedings of the XVII Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models, Kazan, Russian, 1995, Part III.

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Vincze, I. Indistinguishability of particles or independence of the random variables?. J Math Sci 84, 1190–1196 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02398432

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