Inequalities for the quantum Renyi divergences with applications to compound coding problems
Milán Mosonyi · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013
We show two-sided bounds between the conventional quantum R\'enyi divergences and the new notion of R\'enyi divergences introduced recently in M\uller-Lennert, Dupuis, Szehr, Fehr and Tomamichel, J. Math. Phys. 54, 122203, (2013), and Wilde, Winter, Yang, arXiv:1306.1586. The bounds imply that the two versions can be used interchangeably near alpha=1, and hence one can benefit from the best properties of both when proving coding theorems in the case of asymptotically vanishing error. We illustrate this by giving short and simple proofs of the quantum Stein's lemma with composite null-hypothesis, universal source compression, and the achievability part of the classical capacity of compound quantum channels. Apart from the above interchangeability, we benefit from a weak quasi-concavity property of the new Renyi divergences that we also establish here.