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A simple method is shown to provide optimal variational bounds on $f$-divergences with possible constraints on relative information extremums. Known results are refined or proved to be optimal as particular cases.
We solve a problem due to Recam\'an about the lower bound behavior of the maximum possible length among all arithmetic progressions in the least reduced residue system modulo $n$, as $n \to \infty$.
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I report a tight upper bound of the maximum speed of evolution from one quantum state $\rho$ to another $\rho'$ with fidelity $F(\rho,\rho')$ less than or equal to an arbitrary but fixed value under the action of a time-independent…