Concavity of the Auxiliary Function for Classical-Quantum Channels

DOI10.1109/TIT.2016.2598835MaRDI QIDQ2976598zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hao-Chung Cheng, Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Publication date 28 April 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03297

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: The auxiliary function of a classical channel appears in two fundamental quantities that upper and lower bound the error probability, respectively. A crucial property of the auxiliary function is its concavity, which leads to several important results in finite block length analysis. In this paper, we prove that the auxiliary function of a classical-quantum channel also enjoys the same concave property, extending an earlier partial result to its full generality. The key component in our proof is a beautiful result of geometric means of operators.

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• Properties of noncommutative Rényi and Augustin information
• Strong converse exponent for classical-quantum channel coding

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