An Extremal Inequality Motivated by Multiterminal Information-Theoretic Problems

  • Authors:
  • Tie Liu;P. Viswanath

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We prove a new extremal inequality, motivated by the vector Gaussian broadcast channel and the distributed source coding with a single quadratic distortion constraint problems. As a corollary, this inequality yields a generalization of the classical entropy-power inequality (EPI). As another corollary, this inequality sheds insight into maximizing the differential entropy of the sum of two dependent random variables