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We presented assisted common information as a generalization of G\'acs-K\"orner (GK) common information at ISIT 2010. The motivation for our formulation was to improve upperbounds on the efficiency of protocols for secure two-party sampling (which is a form of secure multi-party computation). Our upperbound was based on a monotonicity property of a rate-region (called the assisted residual information region) associated with the assisted common information formulation. In this note we present further results. We explore the connection of assisted common information with the Gray-Wyner system. We show that the assisted residual information region and the Gray-Wyner region are connected by a simple relationship: the assisted residual information region is the increasing hull of the Gray-Wyner region under an affine map. Several known relationships between GK common information and Gray-Wyner system fall out as consequences of this. Quantities which arise in other source coding contexts acquire new interpretations. In previous work we showed that assisted common information can be used to derive upperbounds on the rate at which a pair of parties can {\em securely sample} correlated ra

Author

Prabhakaran, Vinod M.; Prabhakaran, Manoj M.

Published

2011

Language

EN