\documentclass[booklet,oldfontcommands,showtrims]{ipgthesis} % epfl instead of review for standard format. % booklet for the ipg library \usepackage{graphicx,amsmath,amsthm,amssymb,array,psfrag,stmaryrd,wasysym} \usepackage{epic} %\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix} %\input{notation.tex} \newtheorem{example}{Example}[chapter] \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[chapter] \newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}[chapter] \newtheorem{proposition}{Proposition}[chapter] \newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[chapter] \newtheorem{result}{Result}[chapter] \newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}[chapter] \newtheorem{lemma*}{Lemma} \newtheorem{remark}{Remark}[chapter] \newtheorem{assumption}{Assumption}[chapter] \newtheorem{conjecture}{Conjecture}[chapter] \newtheorem{algorithm}{Algorithm}[chapter] \newtheorem{fact}{Fact}[chapter] %\textwidth=1.1\textwidth %\newtheorem{example}{Example}{} %\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}{} %\newtheorem{corollary}{Corollary}{} %\newtheorem{proposition}{Proposition}{} %\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}{} %\newtheorem{result}{Result}{} %\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}{} %\newtheorem{remark}{Remark}{} %\newtheorem{assumption}{Assumption}{} %\newtheorem{conjecture}{Conjecture}{} %\newtheorem{algorithm}{Algorithm}{} %\newtheorem{fact}{Fact}{} \newcommand{\openone}{\leavevmode\hbox{\small1\normalsize\kern-.33em1}} \newcommand{\prob}{\mathbb{P}} \newcommand {\bE} {\mathbb{E}} \newcommand{\codeens}{{\mathcal C}} \title{Statistical Physics Methods for Sparse Graph Codes} \date{} \abstractcol \begin{document} \trimLmarks \frontmatter \begin{titlingpage} \calccentering{\unitlength} \begin{adjustwidth*}{\unitlength}{-\unitlength} \maketitle \end{adjustwidth*} \end{titlingpage} \author{Shrinivas Kudekar} \renewcommand{\maketitlehookc} {% \vskip 11cm \begin{center} %Submitted for the degree of Docteur \`es Sciences \\ EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne \end{center} \newpage } \begin{titlingpage} \calccentering{\unitlength} \begin{adjustwidth*}{\unitlength}{-\unitlength} \maketitle \end{adjustwidth*} { \noindent Thesis No. 4442 (July 2009) \vskip 5cm \noindent Thesis presented to the faculty of computer and communication sciences for obtaining the degree of Docteur \` es Sciences \vskip 1cm \noindent Accepted by the jury: \vskip 0.4cm \noindent {\bf R. Urbanke} and {\bf N. Macris} \\ \noindent {Thesis directors} \vskip 0.4cm \noindent{\bf M. Chertkov} \\ \noindent {Expert} \vskip 0.4cm \noindent{\bf D. Shah} \\ \noindent {Expert} \vskip 0.4cm \noindent {\bf A. Shokrollahi} \\ \noindent {Expert} \vskip 0.4cm \noindent {\bf B. Rimoldi} \\ \noindent {President of the jury} \vskip 3cm \noindent Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne, 2009 } \end{titlingpage} \chapter{Abstract} %\input{Abstract} \chapter{R\'esum\'e} %\input{Abstract_fr} \chapter{Acktionary} %\input{Acknowledgements} %\input{Acktionary} \cleardoublepage \tableofcontents \clearpage %\listoffigures %\clearpage %\listofsymbols \mainmatter %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Introduction} %\input{introduction.tex} % %\chapter{Preliminaries} %\input{preliminaries} \chapter{Lower Bounds on Conditional Entropy: The Interpolation Method} %\input{lower_bounds} \chapter{Binary Erasure Channel: Second Interpolation Method} %\input{BEC_equality} \chapter{Decay of Correlations: Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio} %\input{corr_decay_low_snr.tex} \chapter{Decay of Correlations: High Signal-to-Noise Ratio} %\input{corr_decay_high_snr.tex} %\chapter{Perspectives} %\input{perspectives.tex} \backmatter \bibliographystyle{IEEEtran} \bibliography{lth,lthpub} %\input{bib.tex} %\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranS} %\bibliography{references} %\input{CV} %\input{acronyms} \end{document}