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This paper explores some applications of a two-moment inequality for the integral of the $r$-th power of a function, where $0 < r< 1$. The first contribution is an upper bound on the R\'{e}nyi entropy of a random vector in terms of the two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Galen Reeves

The existing upper and lower bounds between entropy and error are mostly derived through an inequality means without linking to joint distributions. In fact, from either theoretical or application viewpoint, there exists a need to achieve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Bao-Gang Hu , Hong-Jie Xing

The fidelity-based smooth min-relative entropy is a distinguishability measure that has appeared in a variety of contexts in prior work on quantum information, including resource theories like thermodynamics and coherence. Here we provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

One possibility of defining a quantum R\'enyi $\alpha$-divergence of two quantum states is to optimize the classical R\'enyi $\alpha$-divergence of their post-measurement probability distributions over all possible measurements (measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Milán Mosonyi , Fumio Hiai

We address an information-theoretic approach to noise and disturbance in quantum measurements. Properties of corresponding probability distributions are characterized by means of both the R\'{e}nyi and Tsallis entropies. Related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-03 Alexey E. Rastegin

This paper studies the complexity of estimating Renyi divergences of discrete distributions: $p$ observed from samples and the baseline distribution $q$ known \emph{a priori}. Extending the results of Acharya et al. (SODA'15) on estimating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Maciej Skorski

We present chain rules for a new definition of the quantum R\'enyi conditional entropy sometimes called the "sandwiched" R\'enyi conditional entropy. More precisely, we prove analogues of the equation $H(AB|C) = H(A|BC) + H(B|C)$, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Frédéric Dupuis

We investigate the uncertainty principle for two successive projective measurements in terms of R\'enyi entropy based on a single quantum system. Our results cover a large family of the entropy (including the Shannon entropy) uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Jun Zhang , Yang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

A theory of thermodynamics has been recently formulated and derived on the basis of R\'enyi entropy and its relative versions. In this framework, we define the concepts of partition function, internal energy and free energy, and fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Natália Bebiano , João da Providência , João Pinheiro da Providência

R\'enyi entropy is an important measure in the context of information theory as a generalization of Shannon entropy. This information measure was often used for uncertainty quantification of dynamical behaviour of stochastic processes. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Salah H. Abid , Uday J. Quaez , Javier E. Contreras-Reyescor

Lower bounds for the R\'enyi entropies of sums of independent random variables taking values in cyclic groups of prime order under permutations are established. The main ingredients of our approach are extended rearrangement inequalities in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Mokshay Madiman , Liyao Wang , Jae Oh Woo

We calculate and analyze various entropy measures and their properties for selected probability distributions. The entropies considered include Shannon, R\'enyi, generalized R\'enyi, Tsallis, Sharma-Mittal, and modified Shannon entropy,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Iryna Bodnarchuk , Yuliya Mishura , Kostiantyn Ralchenko

We study the relative entropy between the empirical estimate of a discrete distribution and the true underlying distribution. If the minimum value of the probability mass function exceeds an $\alpha > 0$ (i.e. when the true underlying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Alankrita Bhatt , Ankit Pensia

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 study the problem of exact sampling under an exponential communication cost, specifically Campbell's average codeword length $L(t)$ of order $t$, and R\'enyi's entropy. We provide a lower bound on the Campbell cost of exact sampling that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Spencer Hill , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

R\'enyi transfer entropy (RTE) is a generalization of classical transfer entropy that replaces Shannon's entropy with R\'enyi's information measure. This, in turn, introduces a new tunable parameter $\alpha$, which accounts for sensitivity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-06 Zlata Tabachová , Petr Jizba , Hynek Lavička , Milan Paluš

We obtain formulas for Petz-R\'enyi and Umegaki relative entropy from the idea of distribution of a positive selfadjoint operator. Classical results on R\'enyi and Kullback-Leibler divergences are applied to obtain new results and new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 George Androulakis , Tiju Cherian John

Uncertainty relations for a pair of arbitrary measurements and for a single measurement are posed in the form of inequalities using the Renyi entropies. The formulation deals with discrete observables. Both the relations with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-21 A. E. Rastegin

We investigate the R\'enyi entropy of independent sums of integer valued random variables through Fourier theoretic means, and give sharp comparisons between the variance and the R\'enyi entropy, for Poisson-Bernoulli variables. As…

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