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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 7 4 d Solution by
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Put , where the Gaussian density is strictly positive. Extend continuously at zero by . Both densities have integral one, so the relative entropy can be written asThe bracket is nonnegative and vanishes only at : its derivative for is , with a unique minimum at one. HenceThe inequality holds also for infinite entropy. Its negative integrand part is integrable, since and has integral one, so the extended-value integral is well defined. This is relative entropy in Kac's model; no differentiation is needed for nonnegativity.
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