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Convexity of quantum -divergence
The quantum \chi^2-divergence has recently been introduced and applied to
quantum channels (quantum Markov processes). In contrast to the classical
setting the quantum \chi^2-divergence is not unique but depends on the choice
of quantum statistics. In the reference [11] a special one-parameter family of
quantum \chi^2_\alpha(\rho,\sigma)-divergences for density matrices were
studied, and it was established that they are convex functions in (\rho,\sigma)
for parameter values \alpha\in [0,1], thus mirroring the classical theorem for
the \chi^2(p,q)-divergence for probability distributions (p,q). We prove that
any quantum \chi^2-divergence is a convex function in its two arguments.Comment: Proof clarified, typos correcte