%0 Journal Article
%T On the statistical physics of directed polymers in a random medium and their relation to tree codes
%A Neri Merhav
%J Mathematics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%X Using well-known results from statistical physics, concerning the almost-sure behavior of the free energy of directed polymers in a random medium, we prove that random tree codes achieve the distortion-rate function almost surely under a certain symmetry condition.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2454v1