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High signal-to-noise ratio asymptotics of entropy-constrained Gaussian channel capacity

Published: January 14, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.09864v1

By: Adway Girish, Shlomo Shamai, Emre Telatar

We study the input-entropy-constrained Gaussian channel capacity problem in the asymptotic high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. We show that the capacity-achieving distribution as SNR goes to infinity is given by a discrete Gaussian distribution supported on a scaled integer lattice. Further, we show that the gap between the input entropy and the capacity decreases to zero exponentially in SNR, and characterize this exponent.

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Computer Science:
Information Theory