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Entropy has emerged as a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and widely accepted quantitative measure of uncertainty across different disciplines. A unified understanding of entropy measures, supported by a detailed review of their theoretical…

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Recently Lewis Bowen introduced a notion of entropy for measure-preserving actions of a countable sofic group on a standard probability space admitting a generating partition with finite entropy. By applying an operator algebra perspective…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-18 David Kerr , Hanfeng Li

We consider the non-isothermal flow of a compressible fluid through pipes. Starting from the full set of Euler equations, we propose a variational characterization of solutions that encodes the conservation of mass, energy, and entropy in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Herbert Egger

The time decay of fully discrete finite-volume approximations of porous-medium and fast-diffusion equations with Neumann or periodic boundary conditions is proved in the entropy sense. The algebraic or exponential decay rates are computed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Ansgar Jüngel , Stefan Schuchnigg

The problem of determining the joint probability distributions for correlated random variables with pre-specified marginals is considered. When the joint distribution satisfying all the required conditions is not unique, the "most unbiased"…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hernán Larralde

We define a one-parameter family of entropies, each assigning a real number to any probability measure on a compact metric space (or, more generally, a compact Hausdorff space with a notion of similarity between points). These entropies…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Tom Leinster , Emily Roff

We give tight lower and upper bounds on the expected missing mass for distributions over finite and countably infinite spaces. An essential characterization of the extremal distributions is given. We also provide an extension to totally…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Daniel Berend , Aryeh Kontorovich

Under general multivariate regular variation conditions, the extreme Value-at-Risk of a portfolio can be expressed as an integral of a known kernel with respect to a generally unknown spectral measure supported on the unit simplex. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Robert Yuen , Stilian Stoev , Dan Cooley

Recent theoretical developments revived the interest in charged particle multiplicities and their wide-spread parametrization, the negative binomial distribution (NBD). The central observable of the studies is the Shannon entropy of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Sándor Lökös

Estimating the entropy of a discrete random variable is a fundamental problem in information theory and related fields. This problem has many applications in various domains, including machine learning, statistics and data compression. Over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yuval Shalev , Amichai Painsky , Irad Ben-Gal

For any discrete probability distributions with bounded entropy, we can generate exactly a random variate using only a finite expected number of perfect coin flips. A perfect coin flip is the outcome of an unbiased Bernoulli random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Luc Devroye , Claude Gravel

We study restricted permutations of sets which have a geometrical structure. The study of restricted permutations is motivated by their application in coding for flash memories, and their relevance in different applications of networking…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Dor Elimelech

This paper concerns the problem of 1-bit compressed sensing, where the goal is to estimate a sparse signal from a few of its binary measurements. We study a non-convex sparsity-constrained program and present a novel and concise analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Jie Shen

In this note, we use entanglement entropy as a tool to explore the universal properties of CFTs dual to extremal BTZ black holes. We demonstrate that the entanglement entropies computed in the CFTs at the boundary of the extremal BTZ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Pawel Caputa , Vishnu Jejjala , Hesam Soltanpanahi

Permutation entropy quantifies the diversity of possible orderings of the values a random or deterministic system can take, as Shannon entropy quantifies the diversity of values. We show that the metric and permutation entropy…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Jose M. Amigo , Matthew B. Kennel , Ljupco Kocarev

To quantify the complexity of a system, entropy-based methods have received considerable critical attentions in real-world data analysis. Among numerous entropy algorithms, amplitude-based formulas, represented by Sample Entropy, suffer…

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Let $E$ be a subset of positive integers such that $E\cap\{1,2\}\ne\emptyset$. A weakly mixing finite measure preserving flow $T=(T_t)_{t\in\Bbb R}$ is constructed such that the set of spectral multiplicities (of the corresponding Koopman…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Alexandre I. Danilenko , Mariusz Lemańczyk

In 1-bit compressed sensing, the aim is to estimate a $k$-sparse unit vector $x\in S^{n-1}$ within an $\epsilon$ error (in $\ell_2$) from minimal number of linear measurements that are quantized to just their signs, i.e., from measurements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Namiko Matsumoto , Arya Mazumdar

We consider bounded weak solutions to the Burgers equation for which every entropy dissipation is representable by a measure and we prove that all these measures are concentrated on the graphs of countably many Lipschitz curves. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Elio Marconi