
Statistical Physics and Information Theory
Neri Merhav(Author)
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1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-1-60198-406-7 (ISBN)
Description
This monograph is based on lecture notes of a graduate course, which focuses on the relations between information theory and statistical physics. The course was delivered at the Technion during the Spring of 2010 for the first time, and its target audience consists of EE graduate students in the area of communications and information theory, as well as graduate students in Physics who have basic background in information theory. Strong emphasis is given to the analogy and parallelism between information theory and statistical physics, as well as to the insights, the analysis tools and techniques that can be borrowed from statistical physics and 'imported' to certain problem areas in information theory. This is a research trend that has been very active in the last few decades, and the hope is that by exposing the students to the meeting points between these two disciplines, their background and perspective may be expanded and enhanced. This monograph is substantially revised and expanded relative to an earlier version posted in arXiv (1006.1565v1 [cs.iT]).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hanover
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60198-406-7 (9781601984067)
DOI
10.1561/0100000052
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Content
1: Introduction 2: Basic Background in Statistical Physics 3: Physical Interpretations of Information Measures 4: Analysis Tools and Asymptotic Methods 5: Interacting Particles and Phase Transitions 6: The Random Energy Model and Random Coding 7: Extensions of the REM 8: Summary and Outlook, References