Equality of relative-entropy, Riemannian and geodesic contraction coefficients

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Let G{\cal G} be the specified class of metrics, let gGg\in{\cal G}, and let ϕ\phi be a stochastic map for which the contraction coefficients below are defined. The quantities ηgRelEnt(ϕ)\eta_g^{\rm RelEnt}(\phi), ηgRiem(ϕ)\eta_g^{\rm Riem}(\phi), ηggeod(ϕ)\eta_g^{\rm geod}(\phi), and ηgDobrushin(ϕ)\eta_g^{\rm Dobrushin}(\phi) denote the relative-entropy, Riemannian, geodesic, and Dobrushin contraction coefficients, respectively.

Equality conjecture. For each fixed gGg\in{\cal G},

ηgRelEnt(ϕ)=ηgRiem(ϕ)=ηggeod(ϕ)ηgDobrushin(ϕ).\eta_g^{\rm RelEnt}(\phi)=\eta_g^{\rm Riem}(\phi)=\eta_g^{\rm geod}(\phi)\leq\eta_g^{\rm Dobrushin}(\phi).

The conjecture asserts that the three contraction coefficients agree and are bounded above by the Dobrushin coefficient; the paper presents it among conjectures that had already been discussed, without supplying a resolution.

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Primary source

Andrew Lesniewski and Mary Beth Ruskai, “Monotone Riemannian Metrics and Relative Entropy on Non-Commutative Probability Spaces”, arXiv:math-ph/9808016 (1998).

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