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The paper suggests the concepts of an upper entropy and a lower entropy. We propose a new axiomatic definition, namely, upper entropy axioms, inspired by axioms of metric spaces, and also formulate lower entropy axioms. We also develop weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jin-Li Guo , Qi Suo

Loosely speaking, the Shannon entropy rate is used to gauge a stochastic process' intrinsic randomness; the statistical complexity gives the cost of predicting the process. We calculate, for the first time, the entropy rate and statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. E. Marzen , J. P. Crutchfield

We conclude a sequence of work by giving near-optimal sketching and streaming algorithms for estimating Shannon entropy in the most general streaming model, with arbitrary insertions and deletions. This improves on prior results that obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jelani Nelson , Krzysztof Onak

Building on work of Kontsevich, we introduce a definition of the entropy of a finite probability distribution in which the "probabilities" are integers modulo a prime p. The entropy, too, is an integer mod p. Entropy mod p is shown to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Tom Leinster

In this study an attempt has been made to propose a way to develop new distribution. For this purpose, we need only idea about distribution function. Some important statistical properties of the new distribution like moments, cumulants,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-30 Brijesh P. Singh , Utpal Dhar Das

We consider the Shannon-Khinchin axiomatic systems for the characterization of generalized entropies such as Sharma-Mital and Frank-Daffertshofer entropy. We provide the generalization of Shannon-Khinchin axioms and give the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Velimir M. Ilic , Miomir S. Stankovic

We introduce a binary relation on the finite discrete probability distributions which generalizes notions of majorization that have been studied in quantum information theory. Motivated by questions in thermodynamics, our relation describes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Markus P. Mueller , Michele Pastena

Shannon and Renyi entropies are quantitative measures of uncertainty in a data set. They are developed by Renyi in the context of entropy theory. These measures have been studied in the case of the multivariate t-distributions. We extend…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Salah H. Abid , Uday J. Quaez

It is well-known that the Shannon entropies of some parameterized probability distributions are concave functions with respect to the parameter. In this paper we consider a family of such distributions (including the binomial, Poisson, and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Ioan Rasa

Since its origin in the thermodynamics of the 19th century, the concept of entropy has also permeated other fields of physics and mathematics, such as Classical and Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Information Theory, Probability Theory,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Salomé A. Sepúveda Fontaine , José M. Amigó

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 introduce a new measure of interdependence among the components of a random vector along the main diagonal of the vector copula, i.e. along the line $u_{1}=\ldots=u_{J}$, for $\left(u_{1},\ldots,u_{J}\right)\in\left[0,1\right]^{J}$. Our…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-29 Jhan Rodríguez , András Bárdossy

We study how the Shannon entropy of sequences produced by an information source converges to the source's entropy rate. We synthesize several phenomenological approaches to applying information theoretic measures of randomness and memory to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James P. Crutchfield , David P. Feldman

This study investigates entropy's potential for analyzing scientific research patterns across disciplines. Originating from thermodynamics, entropy now measures uncertainty and diversity in information systems. We examine Shannon Entropy,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-27 Yujie Shi , Alex Jie Yang , Sanhong Deng

We comment on a formulation of quantum statistical mechanics, which incorporates the statistical inference of Shannon. Our basic idea is to distinguish the dynamical entropy of von Neumann, $H = -k Tr \hat{\rho}\ln\hat{\rho}$, in terms of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Kazuo Fujikawa

We study the behavior of a nonlinear semiclassical system using Shannon entropy and two approaches to statistical complexity. These systems involve the interaction between classical variables (representing the environment) and quantum ones.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Gaspar Gonzalez , Andrés M. Kowalski

Entropy is a fundamental property of both classical and quantum systems, spanning myriad theoretical and practical applications in physics and computer science. We study the problem of obtaining estimates to within a multiplicative factor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Tom Gur , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian

We derive an asymptotic lower bound on the Shannon entropy $H$ of sums of $N$ arbitrary iid discrete random variables. The derived bound $H \geq \frac{r(X)}{2}\log(N) + {\it cst}$ is given in terms of the incommensurability rank $r(X)$ of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Riccardo Castellano , Pavel Sekatski

Many partially-successful attempts have been made to find the most natural discrete-variable version of Shannon's entropy power inequality (EPI). We develop an axiomatic framework from which we deduce the natural form of a discrete-variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Saikat Guha , Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Raul Garcia-Patron Sanchez

In this work we determine and discuss the entropic uncertainty measures of Shannon type for all the discrete stationary states of the multidimensional harmonic systems directly in terms of the states' hyperquantum numbers, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 I. V. Toranzo , J. S. Dehesa