Rényi divergence and generalized channel capacity relation

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Let QQ be a non-uniform distribution and UU the uniform distribution on a support of cardinality 2n2^n. Let TT be the matrix with two rows, QQ and UU, and 2n2^n columns. The quantities D1/2(Q∥U)D_{1/2}(Q\|U) and C1/2(T)C_{1/2}(T) denote, respectively, Rényi's divergence of degree 1/21/2 and the generalized channel capacity of degree 1/21/2 (identified here with the standard Shannon channel capacity). The Rényi–capacity conjecture.

D1/2(Q∥U)=2⋅C1/2(T).D_{1/2}(Q\|U)=2\cdot C_{1/2}(T).

This conjecture proposes an exact quantitative relation between Rényi divergence and channel capacity for the binary-input channel whose rows are QQ and UU. The supplied text gives no evidence that the relation has been proved or disproved.

References

Primary source

Yi Janet Lu, “New Results on the DMC Capacity and Renyi's Divergence”, arXiv:1708.00979 (2017).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1602.00095.

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