The equipartition theorem states that inverse temperature equals the log-derivative of the density of states. This relation can be generalized by introducing a proportionality factor involving an increasing positive function φ(x). It is shown that this assumption leads to an equilibrium...

The present paper studies a large class of temperature-dependent probability distributions and shows that entropy and energy can be defined in such a way that these probability distributions are the equilibrium states of a generalized thermostatistics, which is obtained from the standard...