There is no universal source code for an infinite source alphabet

László Györfi, I. Pali, Edward C. van der Meulen · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1994

Shows that a discrete infinite distribution with finite entropy cannot be estimated consistently in information divergence. As a corollary the authors show that there is no universal source code for an infinite source alphabet over the class of all discrete memoryless sources with finite entropy.>

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