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Whether Marton's Inner Bound Achieves the Broadcast Channel Capacity Region

Marton's inner bound, proposed in 1979, is the best known achievable region for a general discrete memoryless broadcast channel, and whether it always achieves the capacity region had been open ever since. It does not: there is a finite two-receiver discrete memoryless broadcast channel whose two-letter Marton value strictly exceeds twice its one-letter value, so the complete one-letter Marton region is strictly contained in the capacity region.

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Whether Marton's Inner Bound Achieves the Broadcast Channel Capacity Region

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Marton's inner bound, proposed in 1979, is the best known achievable region for a general discrete memoryless broadcast channel, and whether it always achieves the capacity region had been open ever since. It does not: there is a finite two-receiver discrete memoryless broadcast channel whose two-letter Marton value strictly exceeds twice its one-letter value, so the complete one-letter Marton region is strictly c…

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Marton's inner bound, proposed in 1979, is the best known achievable region for a general discrete memoryless broadcast channel, and whether it always achieves the capacity region had been open ever since. It does not: there is a finite two-receiver discrete memoryless broadcast channel whose two-letter Marton value strictly exceeds twice its one-letter value, so the complete one-letter Marton region is strictly contained in the capacity region.

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