We show a relation between a quantum channel
Φ and its conjugate
ΦC, which implies that the
p→p Schatten norm of the channel is the same as the
1→p completely bounded norm of the conjugate. This relation is used to give an alternative proof of the multiplicativity of both norms.
We obtain two new additivity results of quantum channels. The first one is the additivity of the channel Rényi information associated with the sandwiched Rényi divergence of order
α∈[21,1). To prove this, we introduce the completely bounded
1→α quasi-norms for completely positive maps, with
α∈[21,1), and show that it is multiplicative. The additivity/multiplicativity derived here extends and complements the results of Devetak {\it et al} (Commun Math Phys 266:37-63, 2006) and Gupta and Wilde (Commun Math Phys 334:867-887, 2015), which deal with the case
α>1. The second one is the additivity of the channel dispersion, which is a quantity related to the second-order behavior of quantum information tasks.
We define 2-indexed
(q,p)-Schatten quasi-norms for any
q,p>0 on operators on a tensor product of Hilbert spaces, naturally extending the norms defined by Pisier's theory of operator-valued Schatten spaces. We establish several desirable properties of these quasi-norms, such as relational consistency and the behavior on block diagonal operators, assuming that
∣q1−p1∣≤1. In fact, we show that this condition is essentially necessary for natural properties to hold. Furthermore, for linear maps between spaces of such quasi-norms, we introduce completely bounded quasi-norms and co-quasi-norms. We prove that the
q→p completely bounded co-quasi-norm is super-multiplicative for tensor products of quantum channels for
q≥p>0, extending an influential result of [Devetak, Junge, King, Ruskai, 2006]. Our proofs rely on elementary matrix analysis and operator convexity tools and do not require operator space theory. On the applications side, we demonstrate that these quasi-norms can be used to express relevant quantum information measures such as Rényi conditional entropies for
α≥21 or the Sandwiched Rényi Umlaut information for
α<1. Our multiplicativity results imply a tensorizing notion of reverse hypercontractivity, additivity of the completely bounded minimum output Rényi-
α-entropy for
α≥21 extending another important result of [Devetak, Junge, King, Ruskai, 2006], and additivity of the maximum output Rényi-
α entropy for
α≥21.