Functional Analysis/Probability Theory
Dimensional behaviour of entropy and information
[Comportement dimensionnel de l'entropie et de l'information]
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 349 (2011) no. 3-4, pp. 201-204.

Nous développons un point de vue de théorie de l'information sur certains problèmes de géométrie des convexes, fournissant par exemple une nouvelle propriété d'équipartition des mesures de probabilités log-concaves, une inégalité de comparaison gaussienne de l'entropie de mesures log-concaves, une formulation entropique de la conjecture de l'hyperplan, et une nouvelle inégalité inverse concernant l'entropie exponentielle pour des mesures log-concaves, analogue à l'inégalité inverse Brunn–Minkowski due à V. Milman.

We develop an information-theoretic perspective on some questions in convex geometry, providing for instance a new equipartition property for log-concave probability measures, some Gaussian comparison results for log-concave measures, an entropic formulation of the hyperplane conjecture, and a new reverse entropy power inequality for log-concave measures analogous to V. Milman's reverse Brunn–Minkowski inequality.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crma.2011.01.008
Bobkov, Sergey 1 ; Madiman, Mokshay 2

1 School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
2 Department of Statistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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Bobkov, Sergey; Madiman, Mokshay. Dimensional behaviour of entropy and information. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 349 (2011) no. 3-4, pp. 201-204. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2011.01.008. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2011.01.008/

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