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This paper is generally concerned with understanding how the uncertainty principle arises in formulations of quantum mechanics, such as the decoherent histories approach, whose central goal is the assignment of probabilities to histories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 J. J. Halliwell

Uncertainty relations provide constraints on how well the outcomes of incompatible measurements can be predicted, and, as well as being fundamental to our understanding of quantum theory, they have practical applications such as for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick J. Coles , Roger Colbeck , Li Yu , Michael Zwolak

The paper explores three known methods, their variants and limitations, that can be used to obtain new entropy inequalities. The Copy Lemma was distilled from the original Zhang-Yeung construction which produced the first non-Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Laszlo Csirmaz

Shannon entropy is the most crucial foundation of Information Theory, which has been proven to be effective in many fields such as communications. Renyi entropy and Chernoff information are other two popular measures of information with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Shanyun Liu , Rui She , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan

Entropic measures of complexity are able to quantify the information encoded in complex network structures. Several entropic measures have been proposed in this respect. Here we study the relation between the Shannon entropy and the Von…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-09-30 Kartik Anand , Ginestra Bianconi , Simone Severini

After Shannon, entropy becomes a fundamental quantity to describe not only uncertainity or chaos of a system but also information carried by the system. Shannon's important discovery is to give a mathematical expression of the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanori Ohya

Some new inequalities of Karamata type are established with a convex function in this paper. The methods of our proof allow us to obtain an extended version of the reverse of Jensen inequality given by Pe{\v} cari\'c and Mi\'ci\'c. Applying…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Shigeru Furuichi , Hamid Reza Moradi , Akram Zardadi

Renyi's "thinning" operation on a discrete random variable is a natural discrete analog of the scaling operation for continuous random variables. The properties of thinning are investigated in an information-theoretic context, especially in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Peter Harremoes , Oliver Johnson , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We prove that every GNS-symmetric quantum Markov semigroup on a finite dimensional matrix algebra satisfies a modified log-Sobolev inequality. In the discrete time setting, we prove that every finite dimensional GNS-symmetric quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Li Gao , Cambyse Rouzé

Introducing inequality constraints in Gaussian process (GP) models can lead to more realistic uncertainties in learning a great variety of real-world problems. We consider the finite-dimensional Gaussian approach from Maatouk and Bay (2017)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Andrés F. López-Lopera , François Bachoc , Nicolas Durrande , Olivier Roustant

We study the $p$-R\'{e}nyi entropy power inequality with a weight factor $t$ on two independent continuous random variables $X$ and $Y$. The extension essentially relies on a modulation on the sharp Young's inequality due to Bobkov and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Junseo Lee , Hyeonjun Yeo , Kabgyun Jeong

A class of information inequalities, called Shannon-type inequalities (STIs), can be proven via a computer software called ITIP. In previous work, we have shown how this technique can be utilized to Fourier-Motzkin elimination algorithm for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Ido B. Gattegno , Haim H. Permuter

We introduce a novel entropy-related function, \textit{non-repeatability}, designed to capture dynamical behaviors in complex systems. Its normalized form, \textit{mutability}, has been previously applied in statistical physics as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-04 Eugenio E. Vogel , Francisco J. Peña , G. Saravia , P. Vargas

Shannon information entropy is a natural measure of probability (de)localization and thus (un)predictability in various procedures of data analysis for model systems. We pay particular attention to links between the Shannon entropy and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piotr Garbaczewski

We study the properties of secret sharing schemes, where a random secret value is transformed into shares distributed among several participants in such a way that only the qualified groups of participants can recover the secret value. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Emirhan Gürpınar

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for complex-valued probability measures and explores their novel applications in information theory and statistical analysis. We define a complex probability measure as a phase-modulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Siang Cheng , Hejun Xu , Tianxiao Pang

New families of Fisher information and entropy power inequalities for sums of independent random variables are presented. These inequalities relate the information in the sum of $n$ independent random variables to the information contained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Andrew Barron

In this note, we present two general classes of integral inequalities motivated by their applications to infinite dimensional systems. The inequalities possess general structures in terms of weight functions and lower quadratic bounds. Many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Qian Feng , Sing Kiong Nguang

The data for many classification problems, such as pattern and speech recognition, follow mixture distributions. To quantify the optimum performance for classification tasks, the Shannon mutual information is a natural information-theoretic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Yijun Ding , Amit Ashok

During the last two decades, concentration inequalities have been the subject of exciting developments in various areas, including convex geometry, functional analysis, statistical physics, high-dimensional statistics, pure and applied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Maxim Raginsky , Igal Sason
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