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Notes on generalized information functions

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Solutions of functional equations, connected with deviations (divergences, inaccuracies) and with inset entropies of degree α, are supplemented and completed. No regularity assumptions are made.

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Aczél, J. Notes on generalized information functions. Aeq. Math. 22, 97–107 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02190166

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