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A Simple Proof of Fast Polarization

Information Theory 2017-04-25 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Fast polarization is an important and useful property of polar codes. It was proved for the binary polarizing 2×22 \times 2 kernel by Arikan and Telatar. The proof was later generalized by Sasoglu. We give a simplified proof.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.07179,
  title  = {A Simple Proof of Fast Polarization},
  author = {Ido Tal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07179},
  year   = {2017}
}
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