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T. Dauxois’ “Non-Gaussian Distributions Under Scrutiny” Under Scrutiny

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A recent paper by T. Dauxois entitled “Non-Gaussian distributions under scrutiny” is submitted to scrutiny. Several comments on its content are made, which constitute, at the same time, a brief state-of-the-art review of nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs theory. Some inadvertences and misleading sentences are pointed out as well.

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Tsallis, C. (2010). T. Dauxois’ “Non-Gaussian Distributions Under Scrutiny” Under Scrutiny. In: Haubold, H., Mathai, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Third UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03325-4_1

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