2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/22732The pseudo-additive relation that the Tsallis entropy satisfies has nothing whatsoever to do with the super- and sub- additivity properties of the entropy. The latter properties, like concavity and convexity, are couched in geometric inequalities and cannot be reduced to equalities. Rather, the pseudo-additivity relation is a functional equation that determines the functional forms of the random entropies. The Arimoto entropy satisfies a similar pseudo-additive relation and yet it is a first order homogeneous form. Hence no conclusions can be drawn on the extensive nature of the system from either the Tsallis or Arimoto entropy based on the pseudo-additive equation.6 pagesStatistical MechanicsQualms concerning Tsallis's condition of pseudo-additivity as a definition of non-extensivitytext