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Sharp Continuity of Petz and Sandwiched R\'enyi Conditional Entropies

Quantum Physics 2026-08-05 v1 Information Theory Mathematical Physics

Abstract

We determine the sharp modulus of continuity, in trace distance, of the optimized Petz and sandwiched R\'enyi conditional entropies for every order α[12,1)\alpha\in[\frac12,1). If two bipartite states are within trace distance δ\delta, then both conditional entropies differ by at most 11αlog[(1ε)α+(D1)1αεα]\frac{1}{1-\alpha} \log[(1-\varepsilon)^{\alpha} +(D-1)^{1-\alpha}\varepsilon^{\alpha}], where ε:=min{δ,11/D}\varepsilon := \min\{\delta,1-1/D\} and DD is the effective dimension, given by the dimension of the first subsystem times the largest possible Schmidt rank. For every distance constraint δ[0,1]\delta\in[0,1], the bound is attained by an isotropic pair with a maximally entangled anchor. Taking α1\alpha\uparrow1 recovers the recent sharp continuity bound of quantum conditional entropy by Berta et al. [arXiv:2607.24687]. The proof linearizes the relevant concave R\'enyi functional at a comparison point dictated by the isotropic equality family. Schmidt-rank domination extends the equality geometry to an arbitrary anchor state, after which trace-distance duality and a noncommutative calibration estimate control the perturbation and anchor term without weakening the sharp constant. The latter estimate requires matrix analysis and is assisted by ChatGPT 5.6 Sol.

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@article{arxiv.2608.04947,
  title  = {Sharp Continuity of Petz and Sandwiched R\'enyi Conditional Entropies},
  author = {Hao-Chung Cheng and Po-Chieh Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.04947},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Relevant literature: arXiv:2007.05049, arXiv:2607.24687