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Pinsker's Inequality #

This file states Pinsker's inequality relating total variation distance and KL divergence.

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.

Real-valued Pinsker corollary, useful once the relevant KL divergence is known to be finite.