Additivity of Holevo capacity

ID: additivity-of-holevo-capacity

Additivity of Holevo capacity by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-14
A channel's Holevo capacity is additive with another channel when their joint capacity equals the sum of the individual capacities. If this holds with every other channel, the channel's tensor powers have capacity and regularization does not increase its unassisted classical capacity of a quantum channel. Additivity is a special property, not a general rule for quantum channels.

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