Entropic inequalities and marginal problems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 803-817

  Fritz, Tobias ^a   Chaves, Rafael ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Entropic inequalities; marginal problem; polymatroids; quantum contextuality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CONTEXTUALITY; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; CYCLE GRAPHS; DIFFERENTIAL ENTROPY; ENTROPIC INEQUALITIES; FOURIER-MOTZKIN ELIMINATION; GRAPHICAL MODEL; HYPERGRAPH; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MARGINAL PROBLEM; MARGINALS; NONTRIVIAL CONDITIONS; POLYMATROIDS; QUANTUM NONLOCALITY; SHANNON ENTROPY; SOFTWARE INTERFACES;

ENTROPY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84872699409     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2012.2222863     Document Type: Article

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