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Rényi Entropy Power Inequalities via Normal Transport and Rotation
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: Received: 7 July 2018 / Approved: 9 July 2018 / Online: 9 July 2018 (13:40:54 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 22 August 2018 / Approved: 23 August 2018 / Online: 23 August 2018 (04:24:58 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 22 August 2018 / Approved: 23 August 2018 / Online: 23 August 2018 (04:24:58 CEST)
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Rioul, O. Rényi Entropy Power Inequalities via Normal Transport and Rotation. Entropy 2018, 20, 641. Rioul, O. Rényi Entropy Power Inequalities via Normal Transport and Rotation. Entropy 2018, 20, 641.
Abstract
Following a recent proof of Shannon's entropy power inequality (EPI), a comprehensive framework for deriving various EPIs for the Rényi entropy is presented that uses transport arguments from normal densities and a change of variable by rotation. Simple arguments are given to recover the previously known Rényi EPIs and derive new ones, by unifying a multiplicative form with constant c and a modification with exponent α of previous works. In particular, for log-concave densities, we obtain a simple transportation proof of a sharp varentropy bound.
Keywords
Rényi entropy; entropy power inequalities; transportation arguments; normal distributions; escort distributions; log-concave distributions
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Probability and Statistics
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