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- 1988
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- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 479-487
- Citations
- 9171
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Constantino Tsallis
(1988).
Possible generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics.
Journal of Statistical Physics
, 52
(1-2)
, 479-487.
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01016429
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- 10.1007/bf01016429