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Hastings' additivity counterexample via Dvoretzky's theorem

Quantum Physics 2011-06-07 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

The goal of this note is to show that Hastings' counterexample to the additivity of minimal output von Neumann entropy can be readily deduced from a sharp version of Dvoretzky's theorem on almost spherical sections of convex bodies.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1003.4925,
  title  = {Hastings' additivity counterexample via Dvoretzky's theorem},
  author = {Guillaume Aubrun and Stanislaw Szarek and Elisabeth Werner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.4925},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages; v.2: added references, Appendix A expanded to make the paper essentially self-contained

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