Data Processing Theorems and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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IRWIN AND JOAN JACOBS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Data Processing Theorems and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
We draw relationships between the generalized data processing theorems of Ziv and Zakai (1973 and 1975) and the dynamical version of the second law of thermodynamics, a.k.a. the Boltzmann H–Theorem, which asserts that the Shannon entropy, H(Xt), pertaining to a finite– state Markov process {Xt}, is monotonically non–decreasing as a function of time t, provided that the steady–state distribution...
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0018-9448,1557-9654
DOI: 10.1109/tit.2011.2159052