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An inequality is derived for the correlation of two univariate functions operating on symmetric bivariate normal random variables. The inequality is a simple consequence of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
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We exhibit infinitely many new, constrained inequalities for the von Neumann entropy, and show that they are independent of each other and the known inequalities obeyed by the von Neumann entropy (basically strong subadditivity). The new…
We correct a small gap found in the authors' paper 'On bounds for the effective differential Nullstellensatz' (J Algebra 449:1-21, 2016). This gap is due to an inequality that does not generally hold. However, under one additional…
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