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

DOI10.1134/S0032946020040018MaRDI QIDQ2229573zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 18 February 2021

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

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

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)

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.

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