If , thenIn finite dimension this follows from multipartite superadditivity of quantum relative entropy, additivity of quantum relative entropy, contraction of trace distance under partial trace, and uniform continuity on the compact state space.
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The Umegaki relative entropy iswhen the support of is contained in that of , and otherwise. Its additivity of quantum relative entropy isits superadditivity of quantum relative entropy isand its data-processing inequality for quantum relative entropy is for every quantum channel .
Additivity follows from the logarithm of a tensor product,and the analogous identity for . For superadditivity, subtract the two marginal relative entropies from the joint one. The reference-state terms cancel, leavingThis is the nonnegativity of quantum mutual information, equivalently Subadditivity of Von Neumann entropy.