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Although 
these 
divergences look very 
natural, 
it 
is usually difficult 
to 
com-
pute 
them, 
unless 
the 
operators 
rp 
and 
& 
commute, 
in 
which case 
they 
both 
can 
be 
written 
as 
VZr 
(W;4?) 
= 
(4?-w)(1) 
-w 
(lr 
(!)), 
with 
h/2 
(q) 
= 2 
(01 
-1) 
for r  = 
1/2 
and 
1 
h 
(q) 
= 
"2 
(q 
- 1 + 
Iq 
-
11) 
== 
(q 
-
lL 
\lq;::O: 
O. 
(14) 
(15) 
Note 
that 
the 
operator 
function 
ll/2 
is 
the 
square 
root 
case 
of 
the 
REmyi 
logarithm 
1  1 
lr 
(q) 
= -
(e
r1nq 
-
1) 
= -
(qr 
- 1), 
lo 
(q) 
= lnq 
(16) 
r  r 
or 
r-Iogarithm, 
which is well defined for 
any 
0 
S; 
r  < 1 
as 
a 
smooth, 
strictly 
monotone 
and 
concave 
operator 
function 
of 
q  > 0  including 
the 
limiting 
case r 
~ 
0 
when 
lo 
=  lim 
lr 
is 
the 
natural 
logarithm 
lo 
= In. 
It 
can 
be 
naturally 
extended 
to 
a 
proper 
concave function 
on 
lR 
by 
l 
(q) 
= 
-00 
on 
q 
S; 
0, 
has 
finite 
strictly 
negative values for 0 < q < 1 
with 
l (1)  = 0 
and 
the 
normalized derivative 
l~ 
(1)  = 1 
at 
q =  1 
and 
is 
strictly 
positive if q > 
O. 
However, 
in 
the 
case r = 1 
the 
REmyi 
"logarithm" 
l 
(q) 
= 
q-l 
is 
not 
concave 
but 
only affine, 
corresponding 
to 
the 
trivial 
divergence d (w, 
4?) 
= 0 
in 
(14) 
if 
h is  replaced 
by 
this 
l. 
This 
is  why 
in 
the 
case r  =  1 we  redefine 
the 
divergence 
by 
another 
monotone 
concave function  (15)  which is,  however, 
not 
strictly 
monotone 
and 
concave 
and 
is 
not 
smooth 
at 
q = 
l. 
The  information divergence V 
(w; 
4?) 
of w  from 
4? 
is usually defined 
as 
a positive negaentropy V
z 
= 
-Sz 
by 
the 
semifinite relative  entropy 
(17) 
Here w 
(ill) 
=  w 
(m) 
and 
l is  usually 
taken 
to 
be 
the 
Renyi 
logarithm 
(16), 
r E 
[0, 
1[ 
for  which In 
(rpj&) 
is usually 
understood 
as 
In 
rp 
- In &. 
3.2. 
The 
general 
information 
divergences 
The 
general information divergence V  (w; 
4?) 
of 
states 
on 
a 
matrix 
algebra 
M 
can 
be 
defined like a 
distance 
to 
have only positive values, however, unlike 
the 
distance 
it 
is 
not 
assumed 
to 
be 
symmetric 
and 
satisfying 
the 
triangular 
inequality, 
and 
usually is allowed 
to 
have also 
the 
infinite value 
+00, 
say, 
for some 
central 
states 
w  i-
4? 
on 
an 
infinite dimensional M 
S;;; 
lIl\ 
(~). 
The