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Branching and generalized-recursive inset entropies
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by Bruce R. Ebanks
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1980), 260-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1980-0565351-6
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Abstract:

In the framework of the mixed theory of information, the general form of branching entropies is determined. This result then leads to a characterization of regular, generalized-recursive entropies of randomized systems of events.
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Bibliographic Information
  • © Copyright 1980 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (1980), 260-267
  • MSC: Primary 94A17; Secondary 39B40, 39B70
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1980-0565351-6
  • MathSciNet review: 565351