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This paper establishes the exact strong converse exponent of the soft covering problem in the classical setting. This exponent characterizes the slowest achievable convergence speed of the total variation to one when a code of rate below…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xingyi He , S. Sandeep Pradhan , Andreas Winter

A unified approach to prove the converses for the quantum channel capacity theorems is presented. These converses include the strong converse theorems for classical or quantum information transfer with error exponents and novel explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Naresh Sharma , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

We find a tight characterization of the strong converse exponent for randomness extraction against quantum side information. In contrast to previous tight bounds, we employ a composable error criterion given by the fidelity (or purified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Roberto Rubboli , Marco Tomamichel

Coding theorems and (strong) converses for memoryless quantum communication channels and quantum sources are proved: for the quantum source the coding theorem is reviewed, and the strong converse proven. For classical information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Winter

Quantum information decoupling is a fundamental primitive in quantum information theory, underlying various applications in quantum physics. We prove a novel one-shot decoupling theorem formulated in terms of quantum relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Mario Berta , Hao-Chung Cheng , Yongsheng Yao

Bounds on information combining are entropic inequalities that determine how the information, or entropy, of a set of random variables can change when they are combined in certain prescribed ways. Such bounds play an important role in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Christoph Hirche

We prove lower bounds for the direct sum problem for two-party bounded error randomised multiple-round communication protocols. Our proofs use the notion of information cost of a protocol, as defined by Chakrabarti, Shi, Wirth and Yao and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rahul Jain , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Pranab Sen

Channel simulation is to simulate a noisy channel using noiseless channels with unlimited shared randomness. This can be interpreted as the reverse problem to Shannon's noisy coding theorem. In contrast to previous works, our approach…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Shi-Bing Li , Ke Li , Lei Yu

By proving a strong converse, we strengthen the weak converse result by Salehkalaibar, Wigger and Wang (2017) concerning hypothesis testing against independence over a two-hop network with communication constraints. Our proof follows by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Daming Cao , Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We present two general approaches to obtain the strong converse rate of quantum hypothesis testing for correlated quantum states. One approach requires that the states satisfy a certain factorization property; typical examples of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Milán Mosonyi , Tomohiro Ogawa

We consider the transmission of classical information through a degraded broadcast channel, whose outputs are two quantum systems, with the state of one being a degraded version of the other. Yard et al. proved that the capacity region of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-03 Hao-Chung Cheng , Nilanjana Datta , Cambyse Rouzé

An uncertainty relation for the R\'enyi entropies of conjugate quantum observables is used to obtain a strong Heisenberg limit of the form ${\rm RMSE} \geq f(\alpha)/(\langle N\rangle+\frac12)$, bounding the root mean square error of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Michael J. W. Hall

We study systematically resource measures of coherence and entanglement based on R\'enyi relative entropies, which include the logarithmic robustness of coherence, geometric coherence, and conventional relative entropy of coherence together…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Huangjun Zhu , Masahito Hayashi , Lin Chen

This paper establishes several converse bounds on the private transmission capabilities of a quantum channel. The main conceptual development builds firmly on the notion of a private state, which is a powerful, uniquely quantum method for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Mark M. Wilde , Marco Tomamichel , Mario Berta

This paper establishes that the strong converse holds for some classes of discrete memoryless multimessage multicast networks (DM-MMNs) whose corresponding cut-set bounds are tight, i.e., coincide with the set of achievable rate tuples. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

This paper studies the difficulty of discriminating between an arbitrary quantum channel and a "replacer" channel that discards its input and replaces it with a fixed state. We show that, in this particular setting, the most general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Tom Cooney , Milán Mosonyi , Mark M. Wilde

We tighten the Entropy Power Inequality (EPI) when one of the random summands is Gaussian. Our strengthening is closely connected to the concept of strong data processing for Gaussian channels and generalizes the (vector extension of)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Thomas A. Courtade

We prove a direct sum theorem for bounded round entanglement-assisted quantum communication complexity. To do so, we use the fully quantum definition for information cost and complexity that we recently introduced, and use both the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Dave Touchette

There are no universally accepted definitions of R\'enyi conditional entropy and R\'enyi mutual information, although motivated by different applications, several definitions have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Shi-Bing Li , Ke Li , Lei Yu

We find a strong-converse bound on the private capacity of a quantum channel assisted by unlimited two-way classical communication. The bound is based on the max-relative entropy of entanglement and its proof uses a new inequality for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 Matthias Christandl , Alexander Müller-Hermes