MMSE transform injectivity conjecture up to reflection

Let XX and ZZ be zero-mean random variables, and for ρ[0,)\rho\in[0,\infty) let mmse(X,ρ){\mathsf{mmse}}(X,\rho) denote the minimum mean-square error in estimating XX from a Gaussian-noise observation at signal-to-noise ratio ρ\rho. MMSE transform injectivity conjecture. For all snr[0,){\mathsf{snr}}\in[0,\infty),

mmse(X,snr)=mmse(Z,snr){\mathsf{mmse}}(X,{\mathsf{snr}})={\mathsf{mmse}}(Z,{\mathsf{snr}})

if and only if XX is identically distributed as either ZZ or Z-Z. This asks whether the MMSE transform determines a zero-mean input distribution up to reflection; the source presents it as an interesting question that remains to be answered.

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Dongning Guo, Yihong Wu, Shlomo Shamai and Sergio Verdu, “Estimation in Gaussian Noise: Properties of the Minimum Mean-Square Error”, arXiv:1004.3332 (2010).

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