Conjectured sharp Rogers-Shephard inequality for entropy
Conjectured sharp Rogers-Shephard inequality for entropy
Let and be independent random vectors in drawn from the same log-concave distribution. Let denote differential entropy and define the entropy power by , with the associated difference constant satisfying . Conjectured sharp entropy Rogers-Shephard inequality. If and are independent -valued random variables drawn from the same log-concave distribution, then
with equality if and only if is a translated and scaled version of the one-sided exponential distribution. Equivalently, for every log-concave random variable , . This is proposed as the sharp one-dimensional analogue of the Rogers-Shephard inequality; the paper's preceding bound is , while contemporaneous work obtains a better non-sharp bound, so the optimal constant remains open.
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Mokshay Madiman and Ioannis Kontoyiannis, “Entropy bounds on abelian groups and the Ruzsa divergence”, arXiv:1508.04089 (2015).
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