• DocumentCode
    3663105
  • Title

    On the geometry of convex typical sets

  • Author

    Varun Jog;Venkat Anantharam

  • Author_Institution
    EECS, UC Berkeley, CA-94720, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    829
  • Lastpage
    833
  • Abstract
    We consider convex sets obtained as one-sided typical sets of log-concave distributions, and show that the sequence of logarithms of intrinsic volumes corresponding to these typical sets converges to a limit function under an appropriate scaling. The limit function may be used to represent the exponential growth rate of intrinsic volumes of the typical sets. Since differential entropy is the exponential growth rate of the volume of typical sets, the exponential growth rate of intrinsic volumes generalizes the differential entropy of log-concave distributions. We conjecture a version of the entropy power inequality for such a generalization of differential entropy.
  • Keywords
    "Entropy","Convergence","Random variables","Geometry","Convex functions","Information theory","Cost accounting"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory (ISIT), 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2157-8117
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2015.7282571
  • Filename
    7282571