We show that the minimum output entropy for all single-mode Gaussian channels is additive and is attained for Gaussian inputs. This allows the derivation of the channel capacity for a number of Gaussian channels, including that of the channel with linear loss, thermal noise, and linear amplification.

We derive bounds on the reliability of the additive white Gaussian noise channel Y = X +Z with output fed back to the transmitter over independent additive white Gaussian noise channel Ỹ = Y + Z̃ . These bounds appear to be new even for transmission at zero rate. As a corollary, it is shown that linear feedback coding schemes of finite-dimensional constellation, such as the celebrated Schalkwijk...

This chapter describes componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVMs) for the estimation of additive models consisting of a sum of nonlinear components. The primal-dual derivations characterizing LS-SVMs for the estimation of the additive model result in a single set of linear equations with size growing in the number of data-points. The derivation is elaborated for the classific...

We provide new concentration inequalities for functions of dependent variables. The work extends that of Janson (2004), which proposes concentration inequalities using a combination of the Laplace transform and the idea of fractional graph coloring, as well as many works that derive concentration inequalities using the entropy method (see, e.g., (Boucheron et al., 2003)). We give inequalities f...

out, R will represent an associative ring with center Z(R). As usual the commutator xy−yx will be denoted by [x,y]. We will use basic commutator identities [xy,z] = [x,z]y+x[y,z] and [x,yz]= [x,y]z+y[x,z]. Recall that a ring R is prime if aRb = (0) implies that a = 0 or b = 0, and is semiprime if aRa = (0) implies a = 0. An additive mapping x x∗ on a ring R is called involution in case (xy)∗ = ...

The existing literature on climate change offers little guidance on why one specification or another of a “damages function” has been selected. Ideally, one wants a functional form that captures reality adequately, yet is analytically sufficiently tractable to yield useful results. This paper gives two plausible risk aversion axioms that a reduced form utility function of temperature change and...

This paper presents and characterizes a two-parameter class of inequality measures that contains the generalized entropy measures, the variance of logarithms, the path independent measures of Foster and Shneyerov (1999) and several new classes of measures. The key axiom is a generalized form of additive decomposability which defines the within-group and between-group inequality terms using a ge...

Let U = Tri(A,M,B) be a triangular algebra, where A, B are unital algebras over a field F and M is a faithful (A,B)-bimodule. Assume that ξ ∈ F and L : U → U is a map. It is shown that, under some mild conditions, L is linear and satisfies L([X, Y ]) = [L(X), Y ] + [X,L(Y )] for any X,Y ∈ U with [X, Y ] = XY − Y X = 0 if and only if L(X) = φ(X) + ZX + f(X) for all A, where φ is a linear derivat...