Telling apartFelidaeandUrsidaefrom the distribution of nucleotides in mitochondrial DNA

Rank–frequency distributions of nucleotide sequences in mitochondrial DNA are defined in a way analogous to the linguistic approach, with the highest-frequent nucleobase serving as a whitespace. For such sequences, entropy and mean length are calculated. These parameters are shown to discriminate the species of the Felidae (cats) and Ursidae (bears) families. From purely numerical values we are able to see in particular that giant pandas are bears while koalas are not. The observed linear relation between the parameters is explained using a simple probabilistic model. The approach based on the non-additive generalization of the Bose distribution is used to analyze the frequency spectra of the nucleotide sequences. In this case, the separation of families is not very sharp. Nevertheless, the distributions for Felidae have on average longer tails comparing to Ursidae.

EINSTEIN'S FLUCTUATION FORMULA: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

A historical overview is given on the basic results which appeared by the year 1926 concerning Einstein's fluctuation formula of black-body radiation, in the context of light-quanta and wave-particle duality. On the basis of the original publications – from Planck's derivation of the black-body spectrum and Einstein's introduction of the photons up to the results of Born, Heisenberg and Jordan on the quantization of a continuum – a comparative study is presented on the first lines of thoughts that led to the concept of quanta. The nature of the particle-like fluctuations and the wave-like fluctuations are analysed by using several approaches. With the help of classical probability theory, it is shown that the infinite divisibility of the Bose distribution leads to the new concept of classical "poissonian photo-multiplets" or to the "binary photo-multiplets" of fermionic character. As an application, Einstein's fluctuation formula is derived as a sum of fermion type fluctuations of the binary photo-multiplets.

GENERALIZED PARTITION FUNCTION FOR BOSE STATISTICS AND THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS

Based on the density operator's coherent state representation [Phys. Lett.A252, 281 (1999)], we extend the well-known Bose distribution's partition function Ξ [Formula: see text] for ideal photon gas [Formula: see text] to that of an assembly of photon gas interacting with nonlinear medium described by the Hamiltonian [Formula: see text], where A=(a1,a2,…,an), Ω is a symmetric matrix, and we report that the corresponding partition function is [Formula: see text] As a result, the generalized Bose distribution and thermodynamic functions are derived.