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2014•IEEE Transactions on Information TheoryOpen access

Beyond the Entropy Power Inequality, via Rearrangements

Liyao Wang, Mokshay Madiman

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A lower bound on the Rényi differential entropy of a sum of independent random vectors is demonstrated in terms of rearrangements. For the special case of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, this lower bound is better than that given by the entropy power inequality. Several applications are discussed, including a new proof of the classical entropy power inequality and an entropy inequality involving symmetrization of Lévy processes.

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A lower bound on the Rényi differential entropy of a sum of independent random vectors is demonstrated in terms of rearrangements. For the special case of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, this lower bound is better than that given by the entropy power inequality. Several applications are discussed, including a new proof of the classical entropy power inequality and an entropy inequality involving symmetrization of Lévy processes.

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A lower bound on the Rényi differential entropy of a sum of independent random vectors is demonstrated in terms of rearrangements. For the special case of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, this lower bound is better than that given by the entropy power inequality. Several applications are discussed, including a new proof of the classical entropy power inequality and an entropy inequality involving symmetrization of Lévy processes.

Key concepts: Entropy power inequality, Mathematics, Differential entropy, Symmetrization, Maximum entropy probability distribution, Joint quantum entropy, Rényi entropy, Entropy (arrow of time)

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