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Exponentiation

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En mathématiques, l’exponentiation est une opération binaire non commutative qui étend la notion de puissance d'un nombre en algèbre. Elle se note en plaçant l'un des opérandes en exposant (d'où son nom) de l'autre, appelé base. Pour des exposants rationnels, l'exponentiation est définie algébriquement de façon à satisfaire la relation : :a^{b+c} = a^b \times a^c. Pour des exposants réels, complexes ou matriciels, la définition passe en général par l'utilisation de la fonction exponentielle, à condition que la base admette un logarithme : :a^b = \exp(b\times \ln(a)). L'exponentiation ensembliste est définie à l'aide des ensembles de fonctions : :F^E = \mathcal{F}(E ; F). Elle permet de définir l'exponentiation pour les cardinaux associés. Elle se généralise par ailleurs, en théorie des catégories, par la notion d'objet exponentiel. Enfin, l'exponentiation des ordinaux est construite par récurrence transfinie : :\alpha^{\beta+1} = \alpha^{

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Shannon, in his landmark 1948 paper, developed a framework for characterizing the fundamental limits of information transmission. Among other results, he showed that reliable communication over a channel is possible at any rate below its capacity. In 2008, Arikan discovered polar codes; the only class of explicitly constructed low-complexity codes that achieve the capacity of any binary-input memoryless symmetric-output channel. Arikan's polar transform turns independent copies of a noisy channel into a collection of synthetic almost-noiseless and almost-useless channels. Polar codes are realized by sending data bits over the almost-noiseless channels and recovering them by using a low-complexity successive-cancellation (SC) decoder, at the receiver. In the first part of this thesis, we study polar codes for communications. When the underlying channel is an erasure channel, we show that almost all correlation coefficients between the erasure events of the synthetic channels decay rapidly. Hence, the sum of the erasure probabilities of the information-carrying channels is a tight estimate of the block-error probability of polar codes when used for communication over the erasure channel. We study SC list (SCL) decoding, a method for boosting the performance of short polar codes. We prove that the method has a numerically stable formulation in log-likelihood ratios. In hardware, this formulation increases the decoding throughput by 53% and reduces the decoder's size about 33%. We present empirical results on the trade-off between the length of the CRC and the performance gains in a CRC-aided version of the list decoder. We also make numerical comparisons of the performance of long polar codes under SC decoding with that of short polar codes under SCL decoding. Shannon's framework also quantifies the secrecy of communications. Wyner, in 1975, proposed a model for communications in the presence of an eavesdropper. It was shown that, at rates below the secrecy capacity, there exist reliable communication schemes in which the amount of information leaked to the eavesdropper decays exponentially in the block-length of the code. In the second part of this thesis, we study the rate of this decay. We derive the exact exponential decay rate of the ensemble-average of the information leaked to the eavesdropper in Wyner's model when a randomly constructed code is used for secure communications. For codes sampled from the ensemble of i.i.d. random codes, we show that the previously known lower bound to the exponent is exact. Our ensemble-optimal exponent for random constant-composition codes improves the lower bound extant in the literature. Finally, we show that random linear codes have the same secrecy power as i.i.d. random codes. The key to securing messages against an eavesdropper is to exploit the randomness of her communication channel so that the statistics of her observation resembles that of a pure noise process for any sent message. We study the effect of feedback on this approximation and show that it does not reduce the minimum entropy rate required to approximate a given process. However, we give examples where variable-length schemes achieve much larger exponents in this approximation in the presence of feedback than the exponents in systems without feedback. Upper-bounding the best exponent that block codes attain, we conclude that variable-length coding is necessary for achieving the improved exponents.

EPFL2017

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In the present thesis, we delve into different extremal and algebraic problems arising from combinatorial geometry. Specifically, we consider the following problems. For any integer

n\ge 3

, we define

e(n)

to be the minimum positive integer such that any set of

e(n)

points in general position in the plane contains

n

points in convex position. In 1935, Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres proved that

e(n) \le {2n-4 \choose n-2}+1

and later in 1961, they obtained the lower bound

2^{n-2}+1 \le e(n)

, which they conjectured to be optimal. We prove that

e(n) \le {2n-5 \choose n-2}-{2n-8 \choose n-3}+2

. In a recent breakthrough, Suk proved that

e(n) \le 2^{n+O\left(n^{2/3}\log n\right)}

. We strengthen this result by extending it to pseudo-configurations and also improving the error term. Combining our results with a theorem of Dobbins et al., we significantly improve the best known upper bounds on the following two functions, introduced by Bisztriczky and Fejes T'{o}th and by Pach and T'{o}th, respectively. Let

c(n)

(and

c'(n)

) denote the smallest positive integer

N

such that any family of

N

pairwise disjoint convex bodies in general position (resp.,

N

convex bodies in general position, any pair of which share at most two boundary points) has an

n

members in convex position. We show that

c(n)\le c'(n)\le 2^{n+O\left(\sqrt{n\log n}\right)}

. Given a point set

P

in the plane, an ordinary circle for

P

is defined as a circle containing exactly three points of

P

. We prove that any set of

n

points in the plane, not all on a line or a circle, determines at least

\frac{1}{4}n^2-O(n)

ordinary circles. We determine the exact minimum number of ordinary circles for all sufficiently large

n

, and characterize all point sets that come close to this minimum. We also consider the orchard problem for circles, where we determine the maximum number of circles containing four points of a given set and describe the extremal configurations. A special case of the Schwartz-Zippel lemma states that given an algebraic curve

C\subset \mathbb{C}^2

of degree

d

and two finite sets

A,B\subset \mathbb{C}

, we have

|C\cap (A\times B)|=O_d(|A|+|B|)

. We establish a two-dimensional version of this result, and prove upper bounds on the size of the intersection

|X\cap (P\times Q)|

for a variety

X\subset \mathbb{C}^4

and finite sets

P,Q\subset \mathbb{C}^2

. A key ingredient in our proofs is a two-dimensional version of a special case of Alon's combinatorial Nullstellensatz. As corollaries, we generalize the Szemer'edi-Trotter point-line incidence theorem and several known bounds on repeated and distinct Euclidean distances. We use incidence geometry to prove some sum-product bounds over arbitrary fields. First, we give an explicit exponent and improve a recent result of Bukh and Tsimerman by proving that

\max \{ |A+A|, |f(A, A)|\}\gg |A|^{6/5}

for any small set

A\subset \mathbb{F}_p

and quadratic non-degenerate polynomial

f(x, y)\in \mathbb{F}_p[x, y]

. This generalizes the result of Roche-Newton et al. giving the best known lower bound for the term

\max \{ |A+A|, |A \cdot A |\}

. Secondly, we improve and generalize the sum-product results of Hegyv'{a}ri and Hennecart on

\max\{ |A+B|, |f(B,C)|\}

, for a specific type of function

f

. Finally, we prove that the number of distinct cubic distances generated by any small set

A\times A\subset \mathbb{F}_p^2

\Omega(|A|^{8/7})

, which improves a result of Yazici et al.

EPFL2017

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Mismatched Decoding Reliability Function at Zero Rate

Marco Bondaschi

We derive an upper bound on the reliability function of mismatched decoding for zero-rate codes. The bound is based on a result by Komlos that shows the existence of a subcode with certain symmetry properties. The bound is shown to coincide with the expurgated exponent at rate zero for a broad family of channel-decoding metric pairs.

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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EPFL2017

In the present thesis, we delve into different extremal and algebraic problems arising from combinatorial geometry. Specifically, we consider the following problems. For any integer

n\ge 3

, we define

e(n)

to be the minimum positive integer such that any set of

e(n)

points in general position in the plane contains

n

points in convex position. In 1935, Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres proved that

e(n) \le {2n-4 \choose n-2}+1

and later in 1961, they obtained the lower bound

2^{n-2}+1 \le e(n)

, which they conjectured to be optimal. We prove that

e(n) \le {2n-5 \choose n-2}-{2n-8 \choose n-3}+2

. In a recent breakthrough, Suk proved that

e(n) \le 2^{n+O\left(n^{2/3}\log n\right)}

c(n)

(and

c'(n)

) denote the smallest positive integer

N

such that any family of

N

pairwise disjoint convex bodies in general position (resp.,

N

convex bodies in general position, any pair of which share at most two boundary points) has an

n

members in convex position. We show that

c(n)\le c'(n)\le 2^{n+O\left(\sqrt{n\log n}\right)}

. Given a point set

P

in the plane, an ordinary circle for

P

is defined as a circle containing exactly three points of

P

. We prove that any set of

n

points in the plane, not all on a line or a circle, determines at least

\frac{1}{4}n^2-O(n)

ordinary circles. We determine the exact minimum number of ordinary circles for all sufficiently large

n

C\subset \mathbb{C}^2

of degree

d

and two finite sets

A,B\subset \mathbb{C}

, we have

|C\cap (A\times B)|=O_d(|A|+|B|)

. We establish a two-dimensional version of this result, and prove upper bounds on the size of the intersection

|X\cap (P\times Q)|

for a variety

X\subset \mathbb{C}^4

and finite sets

P,Q\subset \mathbb{C}^2

\max \{ |A+A|, |f(A, A)|\}\gg |A|^{6/5}

for any small set

A\subset \mathbb{F}_p

and quadratic non-degenerate polynomial

f(x, y)\in \mathbb{F}_p[x, y]

. This generalizes the result of Roche-Newton et al. giving the best known lower bound for the term

\max \{ |A+A|, |A \cdot A |\}

. Secondly, we improve and generalize the sum-product results of Hegyv'{a}ri and Hennecart on

\max\{ |A+B|, |f(B,C)|\}

, for a specific type of function

f

. Finally, we prove that the number of distinct cubic distances generated by any small set

A\times A\subset \mathbb{F}_p^2

\Omega(|A|^{8/7})

, which improves a result of Yazici et al.

EPFL2017