Constrained quantization for the Cantor distribution

Abstract

In this paper, we generalize the notion of unconstrained quantization of the classical Cantor distribution to constrained quantization and give a general definition of constrained quantization. Toward this, we calculate the optimal sets of $n$-points, $n$th constrained quantization errors, the constrained quantization dimensions, and the constrained quantization coefficients taking different families of constraints for all $n\in \mathbb N$. The results in this paper show that both the constrained quantization dimension and the constrained quantization coefficient for the Cantor distribution depend on the underlying constraints. It also shows that the constrained quantization coefficient for the Cantor distribution can exist and be equal to the constrained quantization dimension. These facts are not true in the unconstrained quantization for the Cantor distribution.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2305.1111