Signaling to relativistic observers: an Einstein-Shannon-Riemann encounter

DOI10.1134/S0032946020040018zbMATH Open1459.94080arXiv2005.03720OpenAlexW3123977261MaRDI QIDQ2229573FDOQ2229573

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 18 February 2021

Published in: Problems of Information Transmission (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A communication scenario is described involving a series of events triggered by a transmitter and observed by a receiver experiencing relativistic time dilation. The message selected by the transmitter is assumed to be encoded in the events' timings and is required to be perfectly recovered by the receiver, regardless of the difference in clock rates in the two frames of reference. It is shown that the largest proportion of the space of all $k$-event signals that can be selected as a code ensuring error-free information transfer in this setting equals $zeta(k{)}^{-1}$, where $zeta$ is the Riemann zeta function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03720

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann zeta functioncommunicationerror correctiontiming channelShannon theorytime dilationzero-error codeclock drift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) Nonreal zeros of (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)); Riemann and other hypotheses (11M26) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Theory of error-correcting codes and error-detecting codes (94B99)

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