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In this work, we consider weighted anisotropic Hardy inequalities and trace Hardy inequalities involving a general Finsler metric. We follow a unifying approach, by establishing first a sharp interpolation between them, extending the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Konstantinos Tzirakis

The concept of entropy, firstly introduced in information theory, rapidly became popular in many applied sciences via Shannon's formula to measure the degree of heterogeneity among observations. A rather recent research field aims at…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-20 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

Covariate balance is crucial for unconfounded descriptive or causal comparisons. However, lack of balance is common in observational studies. This article considers weighting strategies for balancing covariates. We define a general class of…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-30 Fan Li , Kari Lock Morgan , Alan M. Zaslavsky

Covariate balance is crucial for unconfounded descriptive or causal comparisons. However, lack of balance is common in observational studies. This article considers weighting strategies for balancing covariates. We define a general class of…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-17 Fan Li , Kari Lock Morgan , Alan M. Zaslavsky

We study the problem of discovering the simplest latent variable that can make two observed discrete variables conditionally independent. The minimum entropy required for such a latent is known as common entropy in information theory. We…

The weighted forms of generalized survival and failure entropies of order ($\alpha,\beta$) are proposed and some properties are obtained. We further propose the dynamic versions of weighted generalized survival and failures entropies and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Siddhartha Chakraborty , Biswabrata Pradhan

In this paper we introduce a new generalisation of the relative Fisher Information for Markov jump processes on a finite or countable state space, and prove an inequality which connects this object with the relative entropy and a large…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Bastian Hilder , Mark A. Peletier , Upanshu Sharma , Oliver Tse

The concept of mean inactivity time plays a crucial role in reliability, risk theory and life testing. In this regard, we introduce a weighted mean inactivity time function by considering a non-negative weight function. Based on this…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Antonio Di Crescenzo , Abdolsaeed Toomaj

Motivated by fractal geometry of self-affine carpets and sponges, Feng--Huang (2016) introduced weighted topological entropy and pressure for factor maps between dynamical systems, and proved variational principles for them. We introduce a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Masaki Tsukamoto

According to a previous conjecture, spatial and temporal Lyapunov exponents of chaotic extended systems can be obtained from derivatives of a suitable function: the entropy potential. The validity and the consequences of this hypothesis are…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Stefano Lepri , Antonio Politi , Alessandro Torcini

We extend the problem of obtaining an estimator for the finite population mean parameter incorporating complete auxiliary information through calibration estimation in survey sampling but considering a functional data framework. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Santiago Gallón , Jean-Michel Loubes , Fabrice Gamboa

The self-similar analysis of time series is generalized by introducing the notion of scenario probabilities. This makes it possible to give a complete statistical description for the forecast spectrum by defining the average forecast as a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Yukalov , S. Gluzman

This paper addresses the correspondence between linear inequalities of Shannon entropy and differential entropy for sums of independent group-valued random variables. We show that any balanced (with the sum of coefficients being zero)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Yihong Wu

In this article, we focus on establishing a new variant of Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for operator convex maps using an appropriate probability measure. To underline the usefulness of these inequalities, we investigate some…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Mustapha Raissouli , Lahcen Tarik , Mohamed Chergui

Uncertainty relations are central to quantum physics. While they were originally formulated in terms of variances, they have later been successfully expressed with entropies following the advent of Shannon information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Anaelle Hertz , Nicolas J. Cerf

Entropy can signify different things: For instance, heat transfer in thermodynamics or a measure of information in data analysis. Many entropies have been introduced and it can be difficult to ascertain their different importance and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , Piergiulio Tempesta

In the past over two decades, very fruitful results have been obtained in information theory in the study of the Shannon entropy. This study has led to the discovery of a new class of constraints on the Shannon entropy called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Raymond W. Yeung

Covariate shift in the test data is a common practical phenomena that can significantly downgrade both the accuracy and the fairness performance of the model. Ensuring fairness across different sensitive groups under covariate shift is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Shreyas Havaldar , Jatin Chauhan , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Jay Nandy , Aravindan Raghuveer

Entropy is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory that allows to quantify entanglement and investigate its properties, for example its monogamy over multipartite systems. Here, we derive variational formulas for relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel

In this note, we derive non trivial sharp bounds related to the weighted harmonic-geometric-arithmetic means inequalities, when two out of the three terms are known. As application, we give an explicit bound for the trace of the inverse of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Gerard Maze , Urs Wagner