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Log-Convexity of Fisher Information Along Heat Flow

Probability & statistics · posed by 2015 · disproved

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For every smooth positive density ff on Rd\mathbb{R}^d, must the Fisher information tI(fγt)t \mapsto I(f * \gamma_t) be log-convex along the heat flow?

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A known question in the information-theoretic entropy-power circle.

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    The hexagonal counterexample - a smooth positive Gaussian-decaying density on the plane - was found with GPT-5.5 Pro; tensorization extends the disproof to every dimension at least two.

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