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Choose an independent set uniformly and let $X_i$ indicate whether it contains vertex $i$. Then $H(X)={\log }_{2}i(G)$. Put $P_i=N(i)\cap [i-1]$ and $b_i=|P_i|$. Form a multiset containing every nonempty $P_i$ and $b_i$ copies of singleton $\{i\}$. Each coordinate $j$ occurs exactly $d_j$ times: in $d_j-b_j$ later-neighbor sets and in $b_j$ singleton copies.

For a set $A$ in this multiset, weight it by $1/{\min }_{j\in A}{d}_j$. These weights form a fractional cover, since each of the $d_j$ occurrences of $j$ has weight at least $1/d_j$. Apply the upper Madiman-Tetali inequality. Since every $j\in P_i$ precedes $i$, one has $d_j\ge d_i$; enlarging that set's weight to $1/d_i$ and removing conditioning only enlarges its nonnegative contribution. For singleton terms retain the useful conditioning on $P_i$. ThusFor $b_i>0$, let $q_i=\mathbb{P}(X_{P_i}=0)$. Every nonzero neighbor assignment forces $X_i=0$, while the all-zero assignment allows at most two values. The maximum entropy on a finite alphabet givesThe last inequality is the binary entropy maximization formula, or the log-sum inequality, with group sizes $2^{b_i}$ and $2^{b_i}-1$. If $b_i=0$ the whole term is zero, also agreeing with the formula. Exponentiating proves the degree-ordered independent-set entropy bound