Timeline for Measures maximizing entropy in a set of measures with fixed average for some observable
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| May 18, 2018 at 18:53 | vote | accept | Dominik Kwietniak | ||
| May 17, 2018 at 15:32 | comment | added | Anthony Quas | A low-brow heuristic way of thinking about this (compared to Vaughn's comprehensive answer below) is to say think about a block of length $N$. Your constraint ensures there are roughly $\alpha N$ 1's in the block. You are then interested in maximizing entropy. This can be achieved by putting the uniform distribution on all configurations with $\alpha N$ 1's. | |
| May 17, 2018 at 15:23 | answer | added | Vaughn Climenhaga | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 17, 2018 at 14:44 | history | asked | Dominik Kwietniak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |