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The goal of this note is to state the optimal decay rate for solutions of the nonlinear fast diffusion equation and, in self-similar variables, the optimal convergence rates to Barenblatt self-similar profiles and their generalizations. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Matteo Bonforte , Jean Dolbeault , Gabriele Grillo , Juan-Luis Vázquez

The growth of the second moments of the solutions of fast diffusion equations is asymptotically governed by the behavior of self-similar solutions. However, at next order, there is a correction term which amounts to a delay depending on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jean Dolbeault , Giuseppe Toscani

R\'enyi divergence is related to R\'enyi entropy much like information divergence (also called Kullback-Leibler divergence or relative entropy) is related to Shannon's entropy, and comes up in many settings. It was introduced by R\'enyi as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-28 Tim van Erven , Peter Harremoës

In this work, we study the real-time evolution of pseudo-(R\'enyi) entropy, a generalization of entanglement entropy, in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We focus on states obtained by acting primary operators located at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari

Semi-discrete Runge-Kutta schemes for nonlinear diffusion equations of parabolic type are analyzed. Conditions are determined under which the schemes dissipate the discrete entropy locally. The dissipation property is a consequence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Ansgar Jüngel , Stefan Schuchnigg

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

We extend from the hyperfinite setting to general von Neumann algebras Mosonyi and Ogawa's (2015) and Mosonyi and Hiai's (2023) results showing the operational interpretation of sandwiched relative R\'enyi entropy in the strong converse of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Marius Junge , Nicholas Laracuente

In recent years, the Renyi entropy has repeatedly been discussed for characterization of quantum critical states and entanglement. Here, time evolution of the Renyi entropy is studied. A compact general formula is presented for the lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 Sumiyoshi Abe

This paper gives improved R\'{e}nyi entropy power inequalities (R-EPIs). Consider a sum $S_n = \sum_{k=1}^n X_k$ of $n$ independent continuous random vectors taking values on $\mathbb{R}^d$, and let $\alpha \in [1, \infty]$. An R-EPI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Eshed Ram , Igal Sason

We discuss some properties of the generalized entropies, called Renyi entropies and their application to the case of continuous distributions. In particular it is shown that these measures of complexity can be divergent, however, their…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Varga , J. Pipek

A lower bound on the R\'enyi differential entropy of a sum of independent random vectors is demonstrated in terms of rearrangements. For the special case of Boltzmann-Shannon entropy, this lower bound is better than that given by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Liyao Wang , Mokshay Madiman

We study multi-charged moments and symmetry-resolved R\'enyi entropy of free compact boson for multiple disjoint intervals. The R\'enyi entropy evaluation involves computing the partition function of the theory on Riemann surfaces with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Himanshu Gaur , Urjit A. Yajnik

We compute the Renyi entropy in a one-dimensional transverse-field quantum Ising model by employing a swapping operator acting on the states which are prepared from the neural network methods. In the static ground state, Renyi entropy can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-15 Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang

The conventional channel resolvability problem refers to the determination of the minimum rate required for an input process so that the output distribution approximates a target distribution in either the total variation distance or the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Lei Yu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

The large time behavior of entropy solution to the compressible Euler equations for polytropic gas (the pressure $p(\rho)=\kappa\rho^{\gamma}, \gamma>1$) with time dependent damping like $-\frac{1}{(1+t)^\lambda}\rho u$ ($0<\lambda<1$) is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Geng Shifeng , Huang Feimin , Wu Xiaochun

We consider a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. In a previous paper we have found mass-preserving, nonnegative weak solutions of the equation satisfying energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Luis Caffarelli , Juan Luis Vazquez

Using a Wigner function based approach, we study the Renyi entropy of a subsystem $A$ of a system of Bosons interacting with a local repulsive potential. The full system is assumed to be in thermal equilibrium at a temperature $T$ and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ahana Chakraborty , Rajdeep Sensarma

We demonstrate that the condensed matter quantum systems encompassing two reservoirs connected by a junction permit a natural definition of flows of conserved measures, Renyi entropies. Such flows are similar to the flows of physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuli V. Nazarov

We study the generalisation of relative entropy, the Renyi divergence $D_{\alpha} ( \rho||\rho_\beta) $ in 2$d$ CFTs between an excited state density matrix $\rho$, created by deforming the Hamiltonian, and the thermal density matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Barsha G. Chowdhury , Shouvik Datta , Justin R. David