Communications in Information and Systems

Volume 3 (2003)

Number 1

On the tightness of the Zhang-Yeung inequality for Gaussian vectors

Pages: 41 – 46

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CIS.2003.v3.n1.a3

Author

Radim Lněnička (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Abstract

The Zhang-Yeung unconditional inequality for Shannon entropies of discrete random variables can be extended to Gaussian variables. A necessary and sufficient condition for equality in the resulting inequality is presented.

Keywords

entropy, inequality, information measure, mutual information

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

Primary 94A17. Secondary 15A15.

Published 1 January 2003