Concavity conjecture for mutual information in a two-target vector Poisson channel

Let X=[X1X2]X=[X_1\:X_2]^{\intercal} be a non-negative random vector whose components X1X_1 and X2X_2 are mutually independent and identically distributed. Let Y=[Y1Y2Y3]Z+3Y=[Y_1\:Y_2\:Y_3]^{\intercal}\in\mathbb{Z}_+^3 be jointly distributed with XX, with conditional law as in (a). Under the time constraint

T=T1+T2+T3,T=T_1+T_2+T_3,

Mutual-information concavity conjecture. The mutual information I(X1,X2;Y1,Y2,Y3)I(X_1,X_2;Y_1,Y_2,Y_3) is concave in (T1,T2,T3)(T_1,T_2,T_3). The conjecture concerns the sensing-time allocation in the two-target vector Poisson channel and is motivated by extensive computational experiments, while the paper gives no proof and notes that the conditional third mutual-information term can itself be non-concave.

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Muhammad Fahad and Daniel R. Fuhrmann, “Sensing Method for Two-Target Detection in Time-Constrained Vector Poisson Channel”, arXiv:2201.07915 (2022).

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