CODING THEOREMS ON CORRELATED GENERAL SOURCES

Slepian, Wolf and Wyner proved famous source coding theorems for correlated i.i.d. sources. On the other hand recently Han and Verdu have shown the source and channel coding theorems on general sources and channels whose statistics can be arbitrary, that is, no assumption such as stationarity or ergodicity is imposed. We prove source coding theorems on correlated general sources by using the method which Han and Verdu developed to prove their theorems. Also, through an example, we show some new results which are essentially different from those already obtained for the i.i.d. source cases.