Title : 
On the thinnest coverings of ellipsoids
         
        
            Author : 
Dumer, I. ; Pinsker, M.S. ; Prelov, V.V.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Coll. of Eng., California Univ., Riverside, CA, USA
         
        
        
            fDate : 
27 June-2 July 2004
         
        
        
            Abstract : 
The thinnest coverings of ellipsoids are studied in the Euclidean spaces of an arbitrary dimension n. Given any ellipsoid, we obtain a tight asymptotic bound on the minimum size of its covering by the balls of radius ε. This bound holds for all but the most oblong ellipsoids. The results can be applied to vector quantization when different data streams are bundled together in one block.
         
        
            Keywords : 
entropy; vector quantisation; Euclidean space; arbitrary dimension; asymptotic bound; data stream; thin ellipsoid covering; vector quantization; Educational institutions; Ellipsoids; Entropy; Polynomials; Vector quantization;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Theory, 2004. ISIT 2004. Proceedings. International Symposium on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8280-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISIT.2004.1365560