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The Undecidability of Conditional Affine Information Inequalities and Conditional Independence Implication With a Binary Constraint.

Authors :
Li, Cheuk Ting
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; Dec2022, Vol. 68 Issue 12, p7685-7701, 17p
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

We establish the undecidability of conditional affine information inequalities, the undecidability of the conditional independence implication problem with a constraint that one random variable is binary, and the undecidability of the problem of deciding whether the intersection of the entropic region and a given affine subspace is empty. This is a step towards the conjecture on the undecidability of conditional independence implication. The undecidability is proved via a reduction from the periodic tiling problem (a variant of the domino problem). Hence, one can construct examples of the aforementioned problems that are independent of ZFC (assuming ZFC is consistent). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00189448
Volume :
68
Issue :
12
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
160651283
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2022.3190800