• DocumentCode
    931460
  • Title

    Some aspects of convexity useful in information theory

  • Author

    Witsenhausen, Hans S.

  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1980
  • fDate
    5/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    265
  • Lastpage
    271
  • Abstract
    From its very beginning, information theory has been pervaded by convexity arguments. Much of the necessary background was developed on an ad hoc basis without reference to the knowledge available from the mathematical study of convex sets and functions. Yet explicit use shown by examples.
  • Keywords
    Information theory; Set theory; Channel capacity; Closed-form solution; Helium; Information theory; Mathematics; Prototypes; Statistics; Testing; Topology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1980.1056173
  • Filename
    1056173