The Courtade-Kumar Most Informative Boolean Function Conjecture and a Symmetrized Li-Médard Conjecture are Equivalent
- Award ID(s):
- 1704624
- PAR ID:
- 10190055
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 2205 to 2209
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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