• DocumentCode
    1458936
  • Title

    Entropic aspects of random fields on trees

  • Author

    Berger, Toby ; Ye, Zhongxing

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    9/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1006
  • Lastpage
    1018
  • Abstract
    The existence of the entropy rate of shift-invariant random fields on binary trees is proven. Alternative representations of and bounds for the entropy rate and surface entropy rate are obtained in terms of conditional entropy. Particular emphasis is placed on Markov chain fields on trees; explicit results are obtained, some of which extend to a more complicated class of tree models
  • Keywords
    Markov processes; entropy; information theory; trees (mathematics); Markov chain fields; binary trees; conditional entropy; entropy rate; information theory; shift-invariant random fields; surface entropy rate; Binary trees; Circuits; Entropy; Helium; Information theory; Joining processes; Military computing; Physics; Tree graphs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.57200
  • Filename
    57200