The capacity trichotomy conjecture for three-source three-terminal sum-networks

Let a sum-network have m=n=3m=n=3, where mm is the number of sources and nn is the number of terminals, and let its capacity be the supremum of the achievable communication rates for computing the sum of the source messages at every terminal.

Capacity trichotomy conjecture. The capacity of the sum-network is either 00, 2/32/3, or at least 11.

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Brijesh Kumar Rai, Bikash Kumar Dey and Sagar Shenvi, “Some bounds on the capacity of communicating the sum of sources”, arXiv:0907.2090 (2009).

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