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Entropy of Products, Subadditivity over Two Marginals, and Convexity of the Entropy

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The entropy of a product of two measures with finite entropy is the sum of their entropies; a measure on a concatenated space with finite entropy and finite second moment has marginals of finite entropy whose entropies add up to at most its own; and the entropy is convex under finite mixtures.

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In the setting of Wasserstein Spaces, Random Vectors, Vector Fields and Symmetric Matrices in Every Dimension: Standing Notation, let q,p∈Nq,p\in\mathbb{N}. The entropy Ent\mathrm{Ent} and the set P2Ent(Rm)\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{m}) of measures in P2(Rm)\mathcal{P}_{2}(\mathbb{R}^{m}) with finite entropy are those of that definition, in each dimension mm used below; μ⊠ν\mu\boxtimes\nu and pr1q,p,pr2q,p\mathrm{pr}^{q,p}_{1},\mathrm{pr}^{q,p}_{2} are those of Probability Measures on Euclidean Space and Random Vectors: Standing Notation §pairs.

1. (Products) For μ∈P2Ent(Rq)\mu\in\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{q}) and ν∈P2Ent(Rp)\nu\in\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{p}), μ⊠ν∈P2Ent(Rq+p)\mu\boxtimes\nu\in\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{q+p}) and Ent(μ⊠ν)=Ent(μ)+Ent(ν)\mathrm{Ent}(\mu\boxtimes\nu)=\mathrm{Ent}(\mu)+\mathrm{Ent}(\nu).

2. (Subadditivity) For Q∈P2Ent(Rq+p)Q\in\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{q+p}), the marginals (pr1q,p)#Q(\mathrm{pr}^{q,p}_{1})_{\#}Q and (pr2q,p)#Q(\mathrm{pr}^{q,p}_{2})_{\#}Q belong to P2Ent(Rq)\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{q}) and P2Ent(Rp)\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{p}), and

Ent((pr1q,p)#Q)+Ent((pr2q,p)#Q)≤Ent(Q).\mathrm{Ent}\bigl((\mathrm{pr}^{q,p}_{1})_{\#}Q\bigr)+\mathrm{Ent}\bigl((\mathrm{pr}^{q,p}_{2})_{\#}Q\bigr)\le\mathrm{Ent}(Q).

3. (Convexity) Let n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}, let μ1,…,μn∈P2Ent(Rq)\mu_{1},\dots,\mu_{n}\in\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{q}), and let t1,…,tn∈Rt_{1},\dots,t_{n}\in\mathbb{R} be nonnegative with ∑j=1ntj=1\sum_{j=1}^{n}t_{j}=1. The function B↦∑j=1ntjμj(B)B\mapsto\sum_{j=1}^{n}t_{j}\mu_{j}(B) on B(Rq)\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R}^{q}) is a probability measure μˉ\bar\mu, it belongs to P2Ent(Rq)\mathcal{P}_{2}^{\mathrm{Ent}}(\mathbb{R}^{q}), and Ent(μˉ)≤∑j=1ntj Ent(μj)\mathrm{Ent}(\bar\mu)\le\sum_{j=1}^{n}t_{j}\,\mathrm{Ent}(\mu_{j}).

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