Capacity-Achieving Input Distributions of Additive Vector Gaussian Noise Channels: Even-Moment Constraints and Unbounded or Compact Support

Entropy (Basel). 2023 Aug 8;25(8):1180. doi: 10.3390/e25081180.

Abstract

We investigate the support of a capacity-achieving input to a vector-valued Gaussian noise channel. The input is subjected to a radial even-moment constraint and is either allowed to take any value in Rn or is restricted to a given compact subset of Rn. It is shown that the support of the capacity-achieving distribution is composed of a countable union of submanifolds, each with a dimension of n-1 or less. When the input is restricted to a compact subset of Rn, this union is finite. Finally, the support of the capacity-achieving distribution is shown to have Lebesgue measure 0 and to be nowhere dense in Rn.

Keywords: Gaussian noise; amplitude constraint; capacity-achieving distribution; even-moment constraint; spherically asymmetric channel.