Entropic exercises around the Kneser-Poulsen conjecture

10/23/2022

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by   Gautam Aishwarya, et al.

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We develop an information-theoretic approach to study the Kneser–Poulsen conjecture in discrete geometry. This leads us to a broad question regarding whether Rényi entropies of independent sums decrease when one of the summands is contracted by a 1-Lipschitz map. We answer this question affirmatively in various cases.