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Generalised Fermi-Dirac distributions and maximum-entropy principle. (English) Zbl 0779.60013

Generalized Fermi-Dirac distributions are worked out on the basis of the maximum entropy principle first explicitly stated by Jaynes. Besides a modified Fermi-Dirac distribution these generalizations contain a continuous-variate case.

MSC:

60E05 Probability distributions: general theory
82B10 Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general)
82B40 Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics
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