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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Mathematical Physics Volume 2011, Article ID 126108, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2011/126108 Research Article Characterizations of Generalized Entropy Functions by Functional Equations Shigeru Furuichi Department of Computer Science and System Analysis, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, 3-25-40, Sakurajyousui, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156-8550, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Shigeru Furuichi, furuichi@chs.nihon-u.ac.jp Received 3 March 2011; Revised 22 May 2011; Accepted 23 May 2011 Academic Editor: Giorgio Kaniadakis Copyright q 2011 Shigeru Furuichi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We will show that a two-parameter extended entropy function is characterized by a functional equation. As a corollary of this result, we obtain that Tsallis entropy function is characterized by a functional equation, which is a different form that used by Suyari and Tsukada, 2009 , that is, in a proposition 2.1 in the present paper. We give an interpretation of the functional equation in our main theorem. 1. Introduction Recently, generalized entropies have been studied from the mathematical point of view. The typical generalizations of Shannon entropy 1 are Renyi entropy 2 and Tsallis entropy 3. ´ The recent comprehensive book 4 and the review 5 support to understand the Tsallis statistics for the readers. Renyi entropy and Tsallis entropy are defined by ´ n