Outer bounds for Gaussian multiple access channels with state known at one encoder

This paper studies a two-user state-dependent Gaussian multiple-access channel with state noncausally known at one encoder. Two new outer bounds on the capacity region are derived, which improve uniformly over the best known (genie-aided) outer bound. The two corner points of the capacity region as well as the sum rate capacity are established, and it is shown that a single-letter solution is adequate to achieve both the corner points and the sum rate capacity. Furthermore, the full capacity region is characterized in situations in which the sum rate capacity is equal to the capacity of the helper problem. The proof exploits the optimal-transportation idea of Polyanskiy and Wu (which was used previously to establish an outer bound on the capacity region of the interference channel) and the worst-case Gaussian noise result for the case in which the input and the noise are dependent.