Entropy (Dec 2009)

Equiprobability, Entropy, Gamma Distributions and Other Geometrical Questions in Multi-Agent Systems

  • Xavier Calbet,
  • Ricardo López-Ruiz,
  • Jaime Sañudo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e11040959
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 4
pp. 959 – 971

Abstract

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A set of many identical interacting agents obeying a global additive constraint is considered. Under the hypothesis of equiprobability in the high-dimensional volume delimited in phase space by the constraint, the statistical behavior of a generic agent over the ensemble is worked out. The asymptotic distribution of that statistical behavior is derived from geometrical arguments. This distribution is related with the Gamma distributions found in several multi-agent economy models. The parallelism with all these systems is established. Also, as a collateral result, a formula for the volume of high-dimensional symmetrical bodies is proposed.

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