Generalization of Mrs. Gerber's Lemma

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

Mrs. Gerber's Lemma (MGL) hinges on the convexity of H(p∗H−1(u))H(p*H^{-1}(u)), where H(u)H(u) is the binary entropy function. In this work, we prove that H(p∗f(u))H(p*f(u)) is convex in uu for every p∈[0,1]p\in [0,1] provided H(f(u))H(f(u)) is convex in uu, where f(u):(a,b)→[0,12]f(u) : (a, b) \to [0, \frac12]. Moreover, our result subsumes MGL and simplifies the original proof. We show that the generalized MGL can be applied in binary broadcast channel to simplify some discussion.

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