Incremental entropy relation as an alternative to MaxEnt Plastino, Angelo Plastino, Ángel Ricardo Curado, Evaldo M. F. Casas, Montserrat MaxEnt Probability density function Thermodynamics' relations We show that, to generate the statistical operator appropriate for a given system, and as an alternative to Jaynes’ MaxEnt approach, that refers to the entropy S, one can use instead the increments ±S in S. To such an effect, one uses the macroscopic thermodynamic relation that links ±S to changes in i) the internal energy E and ii) the remaining M relevant extensive quantities Ai, i = 1; : : : ;M; that characterize the context one is working with. 2014-07-30T11:33:54Z 2014-07-30T11:33:54Z 2008 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Plastino, A.; et al. Incremental entropy relation as an alternative to MaxEnt. Entropy, 10: 124-130 (2008). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32827] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32827 10.3390/entropy-e10020124 1099-4300 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License MDPI