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Introduce a selector $B$ with Bernoulli distribution of parameter $\alpha$, and construct $W$ by taking its conditional law given $B=1$ to be $p_U$, and its conditional law given $B=0$ to be $p_V$. No prescribed joint law of $U,V$ is needed. Summing over the selector gives the desired mixture probability mass function. The conditional entropy isSince conditioning cannot increase information entropy,This proves the concavity of information entropy. The argument also covers infinite information entropies with the convention that a zero mixing weight contributes zero. At $\alpha =0$ or $1$, the mixture is the corresponding original law and equality is immediate.

Draw $X_1^n$ uniformly from $B$ and let $J$ be uniform on $\{1,\dots ,n\}$ independently. ThenIf $P_i$ denotes the marginal law of $X_i$, this also says $P_B=n^{-1}{\sum }_i{P}_i$. Since $X_1^n$ is uniform on $B$,Subadditivity of information entropy followed by concavity of information entropy givesExponentiating proves $|B|\le 2^{nH(P_B)}$.

Let $P_i$ be the marginal probability distribution of $X_i$. Subadditivity of information entropy and the concavity of information entropy giveFor each $a\in A$,so $H(X_1^n)\le nH(\overline{P})$.