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A note on Shannon entropy

Information Theory 2012-03-16 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We present a somewhat different way of looking on Shannon entropy. This leads to an axiomatisation of Shannon entropy that is essentially equivalent to that of Fadeev. In particular we give a new proof of Fadeev theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3322,
  title  = {A note on Shannon entropy},
  author = {Tomasz Sobieszek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3322},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages

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