An airing of the Maximum Entropy/KKT method and its use for astrophysics
Abstract
In this paper, after a brief history of the Maximum Entropy Principle (MaxEnt), we will discuss its generalization in an epistemological way with the use of the KKT methodology in discrete systems. For this purpose, we we will also make a brief history of the KKT method and its use. After this exhibition, we will proceed to the joint use of MaxEnt with KKT. This has already been done in some works found in the literature, but in the particular case of Astrophysics it is a new approach from our group, which we believe to be promising.
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