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From its very beginning, information theory has been pervaded by convexity arguments. Much of the necessary background was developed on an ad hoc basis without reference to the knowledge available from the mathematical study of convex sets and functions. Yet explicit use shown by examples.
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H. S. Witsenhausen (1980) studied this question.
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