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Current status and exact unresolved remainder
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Originating problem: Capacity of the general discrete memoryless relay channel
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The problem was checked as open on 2026-08-01.
The strongest neighboring result found in the cited sources is: Exact capacity is known for degraded and other subclasses; broad inner and outer bounds remain separated in general.
The exact unresolved remainder is: No universal matching computable characterization was located.
A complete resolution must meet the following acceptance conditions: - Give a finite computable expression equal to operational capacity for every finite relay channel. - Or prove a precise impossibility of the requested class of expressions and provide an exact alternative usable for every channel.
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Verification source: doi.org ↗, T. Cover and A. El Gamal, Capacity theorems for the relay channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 25 (1979). decode-forward, compress-forward, cut-set results
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