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The R\'enyi entropy is a generalization of the Shannon entropy and is widely used in mathematical statistics and applied sciences for quantifying the uncertainty in a probability distribution. We consider estimation of the quadratic R\'enyi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-08 David Källberg , Nikolaj Leonenko , Oleg Seleznjev

The R\'enyi entropy is a mathematical generalization of the concept of entropy and it encodes the total information of a system as a funtion of its order parameter $\alpha$. The meaning of the R\'enyi entropy in physics is not completely…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Nicolò Masi

The entropy of probability distribution defined by Shannon has several extensions. R\'enyi entropy is one of the general extensions of Shannon entropy and is widely used in engineering, physics, and so on. On the other hand, the quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Farrukh Mukhamedov , Kyouhei Ohmura , Noboru Watanabe

Numerous entropy-type characteristics (functionals) generalizing R\'enyi entropy are widely used in mathematical statistics, physics, information theory, and signal processing for characterizing uncertainty in probability distributions and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-28 David Källberg , Nikolaj Leonenko , Oleg Seleznjev

We introduce a variant of the R\'enyi entropy definition that aligns it with the well-known H\"older mean: in the new formulation, the r-th order R\'enyi Entropy is the logarithm of the inverse of the r-th order H\"older mean. This brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Francisco José Valverde-Albacete , Carmen Peláez-Moreno

Configurational entropy, or complexity, plays a critical role in characterizing disordered systems such as glasses, yet its measurement often requires significant computational resources. Recently, R\'enyi entropy, a one-parameter…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-27 Nina Javerzat , Eric Bertin , Misaki Ozawa

This paper provides tight bounds on the R\'enyi entropy of a function of a discrete random variable with a finite number of possible values, where the considered function is not one-to-one. To that end, a tight lower bound on the R\'enyi…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Igal Sason

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

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

A general investigation is made into the intrinsic Riemannian geometry for complex systems, from the perspective of statistical mechanics. The entropic formulation of statistical mechanics is the ingredient which enables a connection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-18 B. N. Tiwari , Vinod Chandra , Subhashish Banerjee

The equivalence between non-extensive C. Tsallis entropy and the extensive entropy introduced by Alfr\'ed R\'enyi is discussed. The R\'enyi entropy is studied from the perspective of the geometry of the Lebesgue and generalised, exotic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-02-25 Giorgio Sonnino , György Steinbrecher , Alberto Sonnino

Following a recent proof of Shannon's entropy power inequality (EPI), a comprehensive framework for deriving various EPIs for the R\'enyi entropy is presented that uses transport arguments from normal densities and a change of variable by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Olivier Rioul

We show that the R\'enyi entropies of single particle, extended wave functions for disordered systems contain information about the multifractal spectrum. It is shown for moments of the R\'enyi entropy, $S_{n}$, where $|n|<1$, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Xiao Chen , Benjamin Hsu , Taylor L. Hughes , Eduardo Fradkin

Entropies are fundamental measures of uncertainty with central importance in information theory and statistics and applications across all the quantitative sciences. Under a natural set of operational axioms, the most general form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roberto Rubboli , Erkka Haapasalo , Marco Tomamichel

Data partitioning that maximizes/minimizes the Shannon entropy, or more generally the R\'enyi entropy is a crucial subroutine in data compression, columnar storage, and cardinality estimation algorithms. These partition algorithms can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Aryan Esmailpour , Sanjay Krishnan , Stavros Sintos

R\'enyi entropy of order \alpha is a general measure of entropy. In this paper we derive estimations for the R\'enyi entropy of the mixture of sources in terms of the entropy of the single sources. These relations allow to compute the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor

The Renyi entropies constitute a family of information measures that generalizes the well-known Shannon entropy, inheriting many of its properties. They appear in the form of unconditional and conditional entropies, relative entropies or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Martin Müller-Lennert , Frédéric Dupuis , Oleg Szehr , Serge Fehr , Marco Tomamichel

We introduce R\'enyi entropy of a subsystem energy as a natural quantity which closely mimics the behavior of the entanglement entropy and can be defined for all the quantum many body systems. For this purpose, consider a quantum chain in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-13 Khadijeh Najafi , M. A. Rajabpour

Since their introduction in the early sixties, the R\'enyi entropies have been used in many contexts, ranging from information theory to astrophysics, turbulence phenomena and others. In this note, we enlighten the main connections between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-20 Giuseppe Toscani

Distributions of abundances or frequencies play an important role in many fields of science, from biology to sociology, as does the R\'enyi entropy, which measures the diversity of a statistical ensemble. We derive a mathematical relation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-26 Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak
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