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We consider the entropy of sums of independent discrete random variables, in analogy with Shannon's Entropy Power Inequality, where equality holds for normals. In our case, infinite divisibility suggests that equality should hold for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-21 Oliver Johnson , Yaming Yu

In their 2016 article `Meetings with Lambert $\mathcal{W}$ and Other Special Functions in Optimization and Analysis', Borwein and Lindstrom considered the minimization of an entropy functional utilizing the weighted average of the negative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Heinz H. Bauschke , Scott B. Lindstrom

Maximum entropy models are increasingly being used to describe the collective activity of neural populations with measured mean neural activities and pairwise correlations, but the full space of probability distributions consistent with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Badr F. Albanna , Christopher Hillar , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Michael R. DeWeese

We design, implement and test a simple algorithm which computes the approximate entropy of a finite binary string of arbitrary length. The algorithm uses a weighted average of the Shannon Entropies of the string and all but the last binary…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Grenville J. Croll

We present a simple proof of the entropy-power inequality using an optimal transportation argument which takes the form of a simple change of variables. The same argument yields a reverse inequality involving a conditional differential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Olivier Rioul

The new type of "bumping" of the Muckenhoupt $A_2$ condition on weights is introduced. It is based on bumping the entropy integral of the weights. In particular, one gets (assuming mild regularity conditions on the corresponding Young…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Sergei Treil , Alexander Volberg

Building on the recently introduced notion of Boolean entropy, we define the corresponding Boolean Fisher information via a de Bruijn identity. We study the monotonicity of this Fisher information in the Boolean Central Limit Theorem and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Guillaume Cébron , Kewei Pan

We develop a general framework for using duality to "transfer" stability results for a functional inequality to its dual inequality. As an application, we prove a stability bound for the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, which is related…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Eric A. Carlen

In this paper we apply the entropy principle to the relativistic version of the differential equations describing a standard fluid flow, that is, the equations for mass, momentum, and a system for the energy matrix. These are the second…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Hans Wilhelm Alt

Aim of this short note is to study Shannon's entropy power along entropic interpolations, thus generalizing Costa's concavity theorem. We shall provide two proofs of independent interest: the former by $\Gamma$-calculus, hence applicable to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Luca Tamanini

Using known entropic and information inequalities new inequalities for some classical polynomials are obtained. Examples of Jacobi and Legendre polynomials are considered.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 V. I. Man'ko , L. A. Markovich

Testing copula hypothesis is of fundamental importance in the applications of copula theory. In this paper we proposed a copula hypothesis testing with copula entropy. Since copula entropy is a unified theory in probability and therefore…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-28 Jian Ma

The existing upper and lower bounds between entropy and error probability are mostly derived from the inequality of the entropy relations, which could introduce approximations into the analysis. We derive analytical bounds based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Bao-Gang Hu , Hong-Jie Xing

Various lower bounds are established for the entropy of sums, products and their combinations. First, we derive a prime-field analogue of a version of the entropy power inequality established by Tao over torsion-free groups. Next, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Lampros Gavalakis , Marcel K. Goh , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

A generalization of Young's inequality for convolution with sharp constant is conjectured for scenarios where more than two functions are being convolved, and it is proven for certain parameter ranges. The conjecture would provide a unified…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Sergey Bobkov , Mokshay Madiman , Liyao Wang

The matrix version of the entropy-power inequality for real or complex coefficients and variables is proved using a transportation argument that easily settles the equality case. An application to blind source extraction is given.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Olivier Rioul , Ram Zamir

In 1910 Einstein published a crucial aspect of his understanding of Boltzmann entropy. He essentially argued that the likelihood function of any system composed by two probabilistically independent subsystems {\it ought} to be factorizable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-22 Constantino Tsallis , Hans J. Haubold

The purpose of this article is to develop a technique to estimate certain bounds for entropy numbers of diagonal operator on spaces of p-summable sequences for finite p greater than 1. The approximation method we develop in this direction…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-08 K. P. Deepesh , V. B. Kiran Kumar

Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities generalize Shannon's chain rule for entropy as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Prasad Tetali

We prove a sharp bound between sampling numbers and entropy numbers in the uniform norm for bounded convex sets of bounded functions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Mario Ullrich