Entropies, majorization flow, and continuity bounds
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Entropies, majorization flow, and continuity bounds
zbMATH Open document ID: 1500.81004
author: Eric Hanson
author: Nilanjana Datta
publication date: 2022-08-12T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://ems.press/books/standalone/235/4507
review text: Summary: Entropies play a fundamental role in classical and quantum information theory. There are a plethora of quantum entropies and they satisfy a host of interesting properties. The von Neumann entropy, the first quantum entropy to be defined and arguably the most important of them, satisfies a powerful property called \textit{strong subadditivity}. It was proved by \textit{E. H. Lieb} and \textit{M. B. Ruskai} in [``Proof of the strong subadditivity of quantum-mechanical entropy'', J. Math. Phys. 14, No. 12, 4 p. (1973; \url{doi:10.1063/1.1666274})] and has turned out to be an essential tool in establishing various important results in quantum information theory. We briefly review this property and its applications. Our main focus, however, is on another desirable property of entropies, namely, continuity. We introduce a notion of majorization flow and demonstrate it to be a powerful tool for deriving simple and universal proofs of continuity bounds for Schur concave functions with a particular emphasis on entropic functions relevant in information theory. In particular, for the case of the \(\alpha\alpha\)-Rényi entropy, whose connections to thermodynamics are discussed in this chapter, majorization flow yields a Lipschitz continuity bound for the case \(\alpha > 1\), thus resolving an open problem and providing a substantial improvement over previously known bounds. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1491.46002].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81P17
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81P45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 39B62
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 26A15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 80A10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 26A16
zbMATH DE Number: 7571344
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