A Minimal Unified Framework: Coarse-Graining Fixed Points and Quantum Statistics Conceptual motivationStatistical mechanics is traditionally formulated as a theory of equilibrium distributions derived from entropy maximization under conservation constraints. However, the same mathematical structure appears in several seemingly distinct contexts: (i) Maxwell--Boltzmann, Bose--Einstein, and Fermi--Dirac statistics, (ii) the central limit theorem (CLT), (iii) renormalization-group (RG) fixed-point structures, and (iv) the thermodynamic zeroth law. This section introduces a minimal framework in which these phenomena are interpreted as manifestations of a single principle
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