We review the basic assumptions, proofs and phenomenological applications of non-extensive thermodynamics and statistical models to highenergy elementary and heavy-ion collisions. We also speculate about physical processes in terms of classical field theory which may mimic a thermal source of the experimentally observed spectra.
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