Entropic form emergent from superstatistics.

The Beck-Cohen superstatistics became an important theory in the scenario of complex systems because it generates distributions representing regions of a nonequilibrium system, characterized by different temperatures T≡β^{-1}, leading to a probability distribution f(β). In superstatistics, some classes have been most frequently considered for f(β), like χ^{2}, χ^{2} inverse, and log-normal ones. Herein we investigate the superstatistics resulting from a χ_{η}^{2} distribution through a modification of the usual χ^{2} by introducing a real index η (0<η≤1). In this way, one covers two common and relevant distributions as particular cases, proportional to the q-exponential (e_{q}^{-βx}=[1-(1-q)βx]^{1/1-q}) and the stretched exponential (e^{-(βx)^{η}}). Furthermore, an associated generalized entropic form is found. Since these two particular-case distributions have been frequently found in the literature, we expect that the present results should be applicable to a wide range of classes of complex systems.