 Local Kraus rank bound from an entangled resource

If two parties share a pure resource of Schmidt rank $R$, a fully refined branch of their local operations has Kraus operator $K_{\mu \nu }={\sum }_{j=1}^R\sqrt{p_j}{A}_{\mu j}\otimes B_{\nu j}$. Hence its operator Schmidt rank is at most $R$. Local ancillas, locally adaptive readouts and refined discarded environments are included in the branch operators. Shared classical randomness only mixes such branches. Classical comparison of records does not increase their operator Schmidt rank.