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The problem of Shannon entropy estimation in countable infinite alphabets is addressed from the study and use of convergence results of the entropy functional, which is known to be discontinuous with respect to the total variation distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Jorge F. Silva

Random geometric graphs (RGGs) are commonly used to model networked systems that depend on the underlying spatial embedding. We concern ourselves with the probability distribution of an RGG, which is crucial for studying its random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

The fractional order generalization of Shannon entropy proposed by Ubriaco has been studied for discrete distributions. In the current paper, we conduct a detailed study of the continuous analogue of this entropy termed as fractional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Poulami Paul , Chancal Kundu

We investigate the universal inequalities relating the alpha-Renyi entropies of the marginals of a multi-partite quantum state. This is in analogy to the same question for the Shannon and von Neumann entropy (alpha=1) which are known to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Noah Linden , Milán Mosonyi , Andreas Winter

We consider distributions of ordered random vectors with given one-dimensional marginal distributions. We give an elementary necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such a distribution with finite entropy. In this case, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Cristina Butucea , Jean-François Delmas , Anne Dutfoy , Richard Fischer

We study settings in which mixture and joint distributions satisfy a Poincar\'{e} (or log-Sobolev) inequality induced by a marginal and a collection of conditional distributions that are assumed to satisfy Poincar\'{e} (or log-Sobolev,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Vishwak Srinivasan

Entropic independence is a structural property of measures that underlies modern proofs of functional inequalities, notably (modified) log-Sobolev inequalities, via ``annealing'' or local-to-global schemes. Existing sufficient criteria for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Vishesh Jain , Huy Tuan Pham , Thuy-Duong Vuong

The classical Maximum-Entropy Principle (MEP) based on Shannon entropy is widely used to construct least-biased probability distributions from partial information. However, the Shore-Johnson axioms that single out the Shannon functional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-03 Giuseppe M. Ferro , Edwin T. Pos , Andrea Somazzi

For certain groups, parabolic subgroups appear as stabilizers of flags of sets or vector spaces. Quotients by these parabolic subgroups represent orbits of flags, and their cardinalities asymptotically reveal entropies (as rates of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ryan Leal , Jingtong Sun , Juan Pablo Vigneaux

For noncomposite systems in classical and quantum domains, we obtain new inequalities such as the subadditivity and strong subadditivity conditions for Shannon entropies and information determined by the probability distributions and for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Margarita A Man'ko , Vladimir I Man'ko

(This is the third version of a working paper.) We develop a family of self-normalized concentration inequalities for marginal mean under martingale-difference structure and $\phi/\tilde{\phi}$-mixing conditions, where the latter includes…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Zihao Yuan

Entropic uncertainty relations are interesting in their own rights as well as for a lot of applications. Keeping this in mind, we try to make the corresponding inequalities as tight as possible. The use of parametrized entropies also allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

Characterising the capacity region for a network can be extremely difficult. Even with independent sources, determining the capacity region can be as hard as the open problem of characterising all information inequalities. The majority of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Satyajit Thakor , Terence Chan , Alex Grant

Recently it was shown that if a given state fulfils the reduction criterion it must also satisfy the known entropic inequalities. Now the questions arises whether on the assumption that stronger criteria based on positive but not completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-13 Remigiusz Augusiak , Julia Stasińska , Pawel Horodecki

Breaking of equivalence between the microcanonical ensemble and the canonical ensemble, describing a large system subject to hard and soft constraints, respectively, was recently shown to occur in large random graphs. Hard constraints must…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Diego Garlaschelli , Frank den Hollander , Andrea Roccaverde

We study the properties of a subclass of stochastic processes called discrete time nonlinear Markov chains with an aggregator, which naturally appear in various topics such as strategic queueing systems, inventory dynamics, opinion…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Bar Light

In this note, the following basic question is explored: in a cyclic group, how are the Shannon entropies of the sum and difference of i.i.d. random variables related to each other? For the integer group, we show that they can differ by any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Emmanuel Abbe , Jiange Li , Mokshay Madiman

In this paper we show how to exploit interventional data to acquire the joint conditional distribution of all the variables using the Maximum Entropy principle. To this end, we extend the Causal Maximum Entropy method to make use of…

We discuss existence of mixed state of multicomponent system with given spectrum and given reduced density matrices. We give a complete solution of the problem in terms of linear inequalities on the spectra, accompanied with extensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Klyachko

The main result of this paper is a proof using real analysis of the monotonicity of the topological entropy for the family of quadratic maps, sometimes called Milnor's Monotonicity Conjecture. In contrast, the existing proofs rely in one…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-13 José M. Amigó , Angel Giménez