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Entropies of sums of independent gamma random variables

Probability 2025-01-28 v2 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We establish several Schur-convexity type results under fixed variance for weighted sums of independent gamma random variables and obtain nonasymptotic bounds on their R\'enyi entropies. In particular, this pertains to the recent results by Bartczak-Nayar-Zwara as well as Bobkov-Naumov-Ulyanov, offering simple proofs of the former and extending the latter.

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@article{arxiv.2201.08284,
  title  = {Entropies of sums of independent gamma random variables},
  author = {Giorgos Chasapis and Salil Singh and Tomasz Tkocz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08284},
  year   = {2025}
}