# PSPACE hardness of approximating the capacity of Markoff channels with   noiseless feedback

**Authors:** Mukul Agarwal

arXiv: 1703.08625 · 2018-03-23

## TL;DR

This paper proves that determining the capacity of Markoff channels with noiseless feedback is computationally very hard, specifically PSPACE-hard, indicating significant complexity in such information-theoretic problems.

## Contribution

It establishes the PSPACE-hardness of approximating the capacity of Markoff channels with noiseless feedback, a novel complexity result in information theory.

## Key findings

- Computing capacity of Markoff channels is PSPACE-hard.
- The problem remains hard even with noiseless feedback.
- Complexity results impact understanding of channel capacity computation.

## Abstract

It will be proved that computing the capacity of a Markoff channel with noiseless feedback is PSPACE-hard.

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## References

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