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Minoration via Mixed Volumes and Cover's Problem for General Channels

Jingbo Liu
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We give a complete solution to an open problem of Thomas Cover in 1987 about the capacity of a relay channel in the general discrete memoryless setting without any additional assumptions. The key step in our approach is to lower bound a certain soft-max of a stochastic process by convex geometry methods, which is based on two ideas: First, the soft-max is lower bounded in terms of the supremum of another process, by approximating a convex set with a polytope with bounded number of vertices. Second, using a result of Pajor, the supremum of the process is lower bounded in terms of packing numbers by means of mixed-volume inequalities (Minkowski's first inequality).

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Jingbo Liu. 2022-01-31. Minoration via Mixed Volumes and Cover's Problem for General Channels. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-022-01111-6

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