Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We establish polarization for memoryless sources taking values on the unit-perimeter circle, or on more general compact groups, under Arıkan's polar transform. For sources with finite differential entropy, all but an $O((\log N)^{-1/12})$ fraction of the conditional differential entropies in successive cancellation order lie within any fixed positive distance of zero, where $N$ is the block length. Examples indicate that the true polarization rate is indeed very slow: an inverse-logarithmic rate does not underestimate the polarization speed at moderate block lengths.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7223672380
