{"paper":{"title":"Smooth min-entropy lower bounds for approximation chains","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.IT","math.IT"],"primary_cat":"quant-ph","authors_text":"Ashutosh Marwah, Fr\\'ed\\'eric Dupuis","submitted_at":"2023-08-22T18:55:16Z","abstract_excerpt":"For a state $\\rho_{A_1^n B}$, we call a sequence of states $(\\sigma_{A_1^k B}^{(k)})_{k=1}^n$ an approximation chain if for every $1 \\leq k \\leq n$, $\\rho_{A_1^k B} \\approx_\\epsilon \\sigma_{A_1^k B}^{(k)}$. In general, it is not possible to lower bound the smooth min-entropy of such a $\\rho_{A_1^n B}$, in terms of the entropies of $\\sigma_{A_1^k B}^{(k)}$ without incurring very large penalty factors. In this paper, we study such approximation chains under additional assumptions. We begin by proving a simple entropic triangle inequality, which allows us to bound the smooth min-entropy of a stat"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2308.11736","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2308.11736/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}