Remark on the notion of optimal data compression in information theory

DOI10.1134/S0001434616030378zbMath1386.68058MaRDI QIDQ325680

V. P. Maslov, Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii

Publication date: 18 October 2016

Published in: Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

data compression; information; Kullback-Leibler divergence; Shannon entropy; Bose-Einstein distribution; source coding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68P30: Coding and information theory (compaction, compression, models of communication, encoding schemes, etc.) (aspects in computer science)

94A17: Measures of information, entropy

94A29: Source coding