• DocumentCode
    3609106
  • Title

    A Strengthened Entropy Power Inequality for Log-Concave Densities

  • Author

    Toscani, Giuseppe

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math., Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
  • Volume
    61
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    6550
  • Lastpage
    6559
  • Abstract
    We show that Shannon´s entropy-power inequality admits a strengthened version in the case in which the densities are log-concave. In such a case, in fact, one can extend the Blachman-Stam argument to obtain a sharp inequality for the second derivative of Shannon´s entropy functional with respect to the heat semigroup.
  • Keywords
    entropy; Blachman-Stam argument; Shannon entropy functional; heat semigroup; log-concave densities; strengthened entropy power inequality; Convex functions; Covariance matrices; Entropy; Heating; Mathematical model; Random variables; Yttrium; Entropy; Stam’s Fisher information inequality; Stam???s Fisher information inequality; entropy-power inequality; information measure; information theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2015.2495302
  • Filename
    7308055