Discrete versions of the transport equation and the Shepp-Olkin conjecture

DOI10.1214/14-AOP973zbMath1348.60139arXiv1303.3381WikidataQ60522082 ScholiaQ60522082MaRDI QIDQ272953

Erwan Hillion, Oliver Johnson

Publication date: 21 April 2016

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3381

zbMATH Keywords

entropy; concavity; Bernoulli sums; discrete transport equation; Shepp-Olkin conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

60D05: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry

60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

94A17: Measures of information, entropy

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