%0 Journal Article
%T Symbolic sequences and Tsallis entropy
%A Ribeiro
%A H. V.
%A Lenzi
%A E. K.
%A Mendes
%A R. S.
%A Mendes
%A G. A.
%A da Silva
%A L. R.
%J Brazilian Journal of Physics
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S0103-97332009000400018
%X we address this work to investigate symbolic sequences with long-range correlations by using computational simulation. we analyze sequences with two, three and four symbols that could be repeated l times, with the probability distribution p(l) ¡Ø 1/l ¦Ì. for these sequences, we verified that the usual entropy increases more slowly when the symbols are correlated and the tsallis entropy exhibits, for a suitable choice of q, a linear behavior. we also study the chain as a random walk-like process and observe a nonusual diffusive behavior depending on the values of the parameter ¦Ì.
%K symbolic sequences
%K long-range correlations
%K tsallis entropy
%K non-usual diffusion.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332009000400018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en