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Elimination and Robustification Techniques

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The elimination technique was introduced in [1], who used it to prove the coding theorem of the AVC, which is that the capacity of an AVC with average probability of error is either zero or the random code capacity. It is called Dichotomy theorem, named after its dramatic form.

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Ahlswede, R. (2019). Elimination and Robustification Techniques. In: Ahlswede, A., Althöfer, I., Deppe, C., Tamm, U. (eds) Probabilistic Methods and Distributed Information. Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00312-8_3

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