The entropic Solymosi inequality

Let XX and X′X' be independent and identically distributed, discrete, real-valued random variables with finite entropy H(X)<∞H(X)<\infty. Entropic Solymosi inequality. One has

2H(X+X′)+H(XX′)≥(4−o(1))H(X),2H(X+X')+H(XX')\geq (4-o(1))H(X),

where o(1)o(1) tends to 00 as H(X)→∞H(X)\to\infty. This is the entropy analogue of Solymosi's combinatorial sum-product inequality and would imply the entropic sum-product conjecture with δ=13\delta=\frac13. The source states that this inequality is not proved; it is expected to be sharp in view of the known bound δ≤13\delta\leq\frac13.

References

Primary source

Rupert Li, “The Entropic Sum-Product Phenomenon”, arXiv:2607.29042 (2026).

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