Metric entropy of analytic function classes via ellipsoidal methods

Authors

Thomas Allard and Helmut Bölcskei

Reference

Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, June 2026, submitted.

Abstract

We present a systematic methodology for characterizing the metric entropy of infinite-dimensional ellipsoids with exponentially decaying semi-axes. The approach does not rely on the explicit construction of coverings or packings and yields a unified framework for deriving sharp entropy estimates for a wide range of analytic function classes, including periodic functions analytic on a strip, analytic functions bounded on a disk, and functions of exponential type. In each of these cases, our results improve upon the best known bounds in the literature.

Keywords

Metric entropy, ellipsoids, complex analysis

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