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Continuous path of unitary matrices with prescribed first column?
Consider a continuous curve $u \colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{C}^n$ where $u(t)$ is always a unit vector, $u(t)^* u(t) = 1$.
Question 1: Does there exist a continuous curve $U \colon [0,1] \to \mathbb{C}^{n ...
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What is the significance of matrix ordered algebras?
I am trying to grok matrix ordered operator algebras, but I am having a hard time understanding their significance from the definition. Here is the definition (or at least, one way of stating it):
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