Properties of noncommutative Rényi and Augustin information

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04319-8zbMATH Open1484.94010OpenAlexW2900230570MaRDI QIDQ2113490FDOQ2113490

Authors Hao-Chung Cheng, Li Gao, Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04218

Information theory (general) (94A15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: R'enyi and Augustin information are generalizations of mutual information defined via the R'enyi divergence, playing a significant role in evaluating the performance of information processing tasks by virtue of its connection to the error exponent analysis. In quantum information theory, there are three generalizations of the classical R'enyi divergence -- the Petz's, sandwiched, and log-Euclidean versions, that possess meaningful operational interpretation. However, the associated quantum R'enyi and Augustin information are much less explored compared with their classical counterpart, and lacking crucial properties hinders applications of these quantities to error exponent analysis in the quantum regime. The goal of this paper is to analyze fundamental properties of the R'enyi and Augustin information from a noncommutative measure-theoretic perspective. Firstly, we prove the uniform equicontinuity for all three quantum versions of R'enyi and Augustin information, and it hence yields the joint continuity of these quantities in order and prior input distributions. Secondly, we establish the concavity of the scaled R'enyi and Augustin information in the region of

s i n (- 1, 0)

for both Petz's and the sandwiched versions. This completes the open questions raised by Holevo [IEEE Trans.~Inf.~Theory, 46(6):2256--2261, 2000], and Mosonyi and Ogawa [Commun.~Math.~Phys., 355(1):373--426, 2017]. For the applications, we show that the strong converse exponent in classical-quantum channel coding satisfies a minimax identity, which means that the strong converse exponent can be attained by the best constant composition code. The established concavity is further employed to prove an entropic duality between classical data compression with quantum side information and classical-quantum channel coding, and a Fenchel duality in joint source-channel coding with quantum side information.

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