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Majorization and R\'enyi Entropy Inequalities via Sperner Theory

Combinatorics 2020-02-07 v3 Information Theory math.IT Probability

Abstract

A natural link between the notions of majorization and strongly Sperner posets is elucidated. It is then used to obtain a variety of consequences, including new R\'enyi entropy inequalities for sums of independent, integer-valued random variables.

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@article{arxiv.1712.00913,
  title  = {Majorization and R\'enyi Entropy Inequalities via Sperner Theory},
  author = {Mokshay Madiman and Liyao Wang and Jae Oh Woo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00913},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Introduction was completely rewritten and there are numerous corrections. Expansion of background on Sperner theory, and several references are added