
Tsallis and Rényi entropy measures are two possible different generalizations of the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy (or Shannon's information) but are not generalizations of each others. It is however the Sharma-Mittal measure, which was already defined in 1975 (B.D. Sharma, D.P. Mittal, J.Math.Sci \textbf{10}, 28) and which received attention only recently as an application in statistical mechanics (T.D. Frank & A. Daffertshofer, Physica A \textbf{285}, 351 & T.D. Frank, A.R. Plastino, Eur. Phys. J., B \textbf{30}, 543-549) that provides one possible unification. We will show how this generalization that unifies Rényi and Tsallis entropy in a coherent picture naturally comes into being if the q-formalism of generalized logarithm and exponential functions is used, how together with Sharma-Mittal's measure another possible extension emerges which however does not obey a pseudo-additive law and lacks of other properties relevant for a generalized thermostatistics, and how the relation between all these information measures is best understood when described in terms of a particular logarithmic Kolmogorov-Nagumo average.
Measures of information, entropy, generalized information entropy measures, Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech), FOS: Physical sciences, Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics, Rényi entropy, Sharma-Mittal entropy, Entropy and other invariants, Tsallis entropy, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
Measures of information, entropy, generalized information entropy measures, Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech), FOS: Physical sciences, Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics, Rényi entropy, Sharma-Mittal entropy, Entropy and other invariants, Tsallis entropy, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
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