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Optimal Concentration of Information Content For Log-Concave Densities

Probability 2019-03-06 v2 Information Theory Functional Analysis math.IT

Abstract

An elementary proof is provided of sharp bounds for the varentropy of random vectors with log-concave densities, as well as for deviations of the information content from its mean. These bounds significantly improve on the bounds obtained by Bobkov and Madiman ({\it Ann. Probab.}, 39(4):1528--1543, 2011).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1508.04093,
  title  = {Optimal Concentration of Information Content For Log-Concave Densities},
  author = {Matthieu Fradelizi and Mokshay Madiman and Liyao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04093},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

15 pages. Changes in v2: Remark 2.5 (due to C. Saroglou) added with more general sufficient conditions for equality in Theorem 2.3. Also some minor corrections and added references

R2 v1 2026-06-22T10:35:26.084Z