• DocumentCode
    906362
  • Title

    The convolution inequality for entropy powers

  • Author

    Blachman, Nelson M.

  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1965
  • fDate
    4/1/1965 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    267
  • Lastpage
    271
  • Abstract
    The entropy power of a band-limited random process is the power of white Gaussian noise having the same entropy rate. Shannon´s convolution inequality for entropy power states that the entropy power of the sum of two independent random processes is at least the sum of their entropy powers. This paper presents an improved version of Stam´s proof of this inequality, which is obtained by mathematical induction from the one-dimensional case.
  • Keywords
    Convolution; Entropy functions; Bandwidth; Convolution; Covariance matrix; Entropy; Gaussian noise; Gaussian processes; Random processes; Random variables; Statistics; Upper bound;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1965.1053768
  • Filename
    1053768