Minimum entropy of a log-concave variable with fixed variance

DOI10.1007/S00440-025-01431-3MaRDI QIDQ7253724zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James Melbourne, Piotr Nayar, C. Roberto

Publication date 27 May 2026

Published in Probability Theory and Related Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00440-025-01431-3

zbMATH Keywords

entropylog-concave random variablesvariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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