New identities for the Shannon function and applications
Information Theory
2021-02-26 v1 math.IT
Abstract
We show how the Shannon entropy function H(p,q)is expressible as a linear combination of other Shannon entropy functions involving quotients of polynomials in p,q of degree n for any given positive integer n. An application to cryptographic keys is presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.12692,
title = {New identities for the Shannon function and applications},
author = {Aiden A Bruen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12692},
year = {2021}
}
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13 pages,1 figure