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Past exam of the communication Theory course of the University of Oxford 2009 3 b Solution by
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Let the probability of the first input be . The two equal output probabilities are , and the third is . Writing for the binary entropy function, the output entropy is , while the conditional entropy is . ThereforeThe derivative with respect to isand the second derivative is in the interior. Thus the unique stationary point is the global maximum. It occurs at , soThe capacity itself is . The maximization is over , not over arbitrary output distributions; keeps the feasible outputs explicit.
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