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An Extremal Inequality Motivated by Multiterminal Information Theoretic Problems

Information Theory 2007-07-13 v3 math.IT

Abstract

We prove a new extremal inequality, motivated by the vector Gaussian broadcast channel and the distributed source coding with a single quadratic distortion constraint problems. As a corollary, this inequality yields a generalization of the classical entropy-power inequality (EPI). As another corollary, this inequality sheds insight into maximizing the differential entropy of the sum of two dependent random variables.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0604025,
  title  = {An Extremal Inequality Motivated by Multiterminal Information Theoretic Problems},
  author = {Tie Liu and Pramod Viswanath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0604025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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32 pages, 1 figure

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