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The Third-Order Term in the Normal Approximation for the AWGN Channel

Information Theory 2015-04-21 v2 math.IT

Abstract

This paper shows that, under the average error probability formalism, the third-order term in the normal approximation for the additive white Gaussian noise channel with a maximal or equal power constraint is at least 12logn+O(1)\frac{1}{2} \log n + O(1). This matches the upper bound derived by Polyanskiy-Poor-Verd\'{u} (2010).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1311.2337,
  title  = {The Third-Order Term in the Normal Approximation for the AWGN Channel},
  author = {Vincent Y. F. Tan and Marco Tomamichel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.2337},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 figure

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