Monotonicity conjecture for geometric-scaled sums
Monotonicity conjecture for geometric-scaled sums
Let be i.i.d. arbitrarily distributed random variables with mean , and let
The preceding central limit theorem states that the p.m.f. of converges to the geometric distribution of mean as . Entropy monotonicity conjecture. The entropy increases monotonically with and converges to the geometric entropy as . This is analogous to the law of small numbers and to the discrete entropic-monotonicity result for ultra-log-concave random variables, but the conjecture is not restricted to ultra-log-concave random variables; the available result only establishes monotonicity when increases in power-of- steps.
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Saikat Guha, Jeffrey H. Shapiro and Raul Garcia-Patron Sanchez, “Thinning, photonic beamsplitting, and a general discrete entropy power inequality”, arXiv:1605.07853 (2016).
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