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Bounds on Space-Time-Frequency Dimensionality

Information Theory 2007-07-13 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We bound the number of electromagnetic signals which may be observed over a frequency range 2W2W for a time TT within a region of space enclosed by a radius RR. Our result implies that broadband fields in space cannot be arbitrarily complex: there is a finite amount of information which may be extracted from a region of space via electromagnetic radiation. Three-dimensional space allows a trade-off between large carrier frequency and bandwidth. We demonstrate applications in super-resolution and broadband communication.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0701055,
  title  = {Bounds on Space-Time-Frequency Dimensionality},
  author = {Leif Hanlen and Thushara Abhayapala},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0701055},
  year   = {2007}
}

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accepted Australian Communication Theory Workshop