Total variation–Hellinger–relative entropy inequality

ID: total-variation-hellinger-relative-entropy-inequality

Total variation–Hellinger–relative entropy inequality by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
For the unnormalized Hellinger distance, . Factor and use the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality to bound the total variation distance. For the other bound, gives , whose integral is the squared unnormalized Hellinger distance. Infinite Kullback-Leibler divergence is allowed.

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