Lie Symmetries of the Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equation Based on Weighted Kaniadakis Entropy

Abstract

The paper studies the Lie symmetries of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation in one dimension, which are associated to the weighted Kaniadakis entropy. In particular, the Lie symmetries of the nonlinear diffusive equation, associated to the weighted Kaniadakis entropy, are found. The MaxEnt problem associated to the weighted Kaniadakis entropy is given a complete solution, together with the thermodynamic relations which extend the known ones from the non-weighted case. Several different, but related, arguments point out a subtle dichotomous behavior of the Kaniadakis constant k, distinguishing between the cases k∈(−1,1) and k=±1. By comparison, the Lie symmetries of the NFPEs based on Tsallis q-entropies point out six “exceptional” cases, for: q=12, q=32, q=43, q=73, q=2 and q=3.

Keywords

• nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation
• nonlinear diffusive equation
• Lie symmetries
• weighted entropy
• MaxEnt problem
• Kaniadakis entropy