A functional equation related to generalized entropies and the modular group

DOI10.1007/S00010-020-00717-2MaRDI QIDQ2216451zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Bennequin, Juan Pablo Vigneaux

Publication date 16 December 2020

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06927

zbMATH Keywords

Shannon entropyfunctional equationmodular groupTsallis entropygeneralized entropiesinformation cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24)

Abstract: We solve a functional equation connected to the algebraic characterization of generalized information functions. To prove the symmetry of the solution, we study a related system of functional equations, which involves two homographies. These transformations generate the modular group, and this fact plays a crucial role in solving the system. The method suggests a more general relation between conditional probabilities and arithmetic.

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