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Entropy inequalities for factors of IID

Probability 2017-11-27 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

This paper is concerned with certain invariant random processes (called factors of IID) on infinite trees. Given such a process, one can assign entropies to different finite subgraphs of the tree. There are linear inequalities between these entropies that hold for any factor of IID process (e.g. "edge versus vertex" or "star versus edge"). These inequalities turned out to be very useful: they have several applications already, the most recent one is the Backhausz-Szegedy result on the eigenvectors of random regular graphs. We present new entropy inequalities in this paper. In fact, our approach provides a general "recipe" for how to find and prove such inequalities. Our key tool is a generalization of the edge-vertex inequality for a broader class of factor processes with fewer symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.1706.04937,
  title  = {Entropy inequalities for factors of IID},
  author = {Ágnes Backhausz and Balázs Gerencsér and Viktor Harangi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04937},
  year   = {2017}
}