Characterizations of generalized entropy functions by functional equations (Q666306)

Summary: We show that a two-parameter extended entropy function is characterized by a functional equation. As a corollary of this result, we obtain that the Tsallis entropy function is characterized by a functional equation which is different from than the one used by \textit{H. Suyari} and \textit{M. Tsukada} [``Tsallis differential entropy and divergences derived from the generalized Shannon-Khinchin axioms'', in: Proceedings of the IEEE international symposium on information theory, ISIT '09. Los Alamitos: IEEE. 149--153 (2009)]. We give an interpretation of the functional equation in our main theorem.