Pinsker's Inequality #
This file states Pinsker's inequality relating total variation distance and KL divergence.
theorem
CommunicationComplexity.pinsker_inequality
{Ω : Type u_1}
[MeasurableSpace Ω]
(μ ν : MeasureTheory.ProbabilityMeasure Ω)
:
Pinsker's inequality: total variation distance is bounded by KL divergence. This is stated in
the ℝ≥0∞ form 2 * TV^2 ≤ KL, using natural logarithms in Mathlib's KL divergence.
theorem
CommunicationComplexity.two_mul_tvDistance_sq_le_toReal_klDiv
{Ω : Type u_1}
[MeasurableSpace Ω]
(μ ν : MeasureTheory.ProbabilityMeasure Ω)
(hkl : InformationTheory.klDiv ↑μ ↑ν ≠ ⊤)
:
Real-valued Pinsker corollary, useful once the relevant KL divergence is known to be finite.