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Shannon entropy as well as conditional entropy and mutual information can be compactly expressed in terms of the relative entropy, or Kullback–Leibler divergence. In this sense, the divergence can be seen as a parent quantity to entropy, conditional entropy and mutual information, and many properties of the latter quantities can be derived from properties of the divergence. Similarly, we will define Rényi entropy, conditional entropy and mutual information in terms of a parent quantity, the Rényi divergence. We will see in the following chapters that this approach is very natural and leads to operationally significant measures that have powerful mathematical properties. This observation allows us to first focus our attention on quantum generalizations of the Kullback–Leibler and Rényi divergence and explore their properties, which is the topic of this chapter.
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In fact, uncountably infinite quantum generalizations with interesting mathematical properties can easily be constructed (see, e.g. [9]).
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Tomamichel, M. (2016). Quantum Rényi Divergence. In: Quantum Information Processing with Finite Resources. SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21891-5_4
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