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Commuting unitaries
Is the following true:
For every unit vectors $x_1,..., x_n$, $y_1,..., y_n$ in $\mathbb{C}^k$
there exist a Hilbert space $H$, unitary operators $U_1,...,U_n$ and $V_1,...,V_n$ in $B(H)$ and unit ...
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Existence of translation-invariant basis on $C_c(\mathbb R)$
Consider the space $C_c(\mathbb R)$ of complex-valued continuous functions of compact support. This is a vector space over $\mathbb C$, and I am not considering any topology, so the question is ...
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A matrix norm inequality
Suppose that $A, B$ are Hermitian positive definite matrices of the same order and $0\le p\le 1$. Using a standard approach in matrix analysis, one can show that
$\|A^{1-p}B^p\|\ge \|A\sharp_p B\|$, ...
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A generalization of the Powers-Stormer inequality
The well-known Powers-Stormer inequality says the following: for positive semidefinite operators $A, B$, we have that $\mathrm{Tr}((A - B)(A - B)) \leq \| A^2 - B^2 \|_1$, where $\| \cdot \|_1$ ...
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Decomposition of positive definite matrices.
It is known that a $n^2 \times n^2$ positive semidefinite matrix $A$ cannot always be written as a finite sum
$$
A=\sum_{j} B_j \otimes C_j
$$
with $B_j$ and $C_j$ positive semidefinite matrices (of ...
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When is spectral norm of AB equal to that of BA?
I have $A^{1/2} B A^{1/2} \preceq I$ for two PSD matrices $A$ and $B$, and I'd like to know if that implies $\|AB\|_2 \leq 1.$
The argument I was using to show this is that for any two square ...
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Commutant of the conjugations by unitary matrices
Let $\mathcal{L}(\mathbb{C}^{n \times n})$ denote the algebra of all linear mappings from $\mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ to $\mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ and let $\mathcal{C} \subseteq \mathcal{L}(\mathbb{C}^{...
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Almost commuting matrices, one a projection, is there a nearby projection that commutes?
Suppose that $P, A, Q \in \mathbb{M}^{n \times n}(\mathbb{R})$ (I'm still interested if it must be done over $\mathbb{C}$), (EDIT:) suppose that $A$ is given, $P$ is an orthogonal projection, and $\...
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Potential p-norm on tuples of positive operators
This is a follow-up to this question on p-norms of tuples of operators.
Consider $\left[\begin{matrix} A \\ B \end{matrix}\right] \in B(H)^2_+$, meaning $A,B\geq 0$, and define
$$
\left\|\left[\begin{...
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Potential p-norm on tuples of operators
Consider $\left[\begin{matrix}A \\ B\end{matrix}\right] \in B(H)^2$. One can define
$$
\left\|\left[\begin{matrix}A \\ B\end{matrix}\right]\right\|_p = \| |A|^p + |B|^p\|^{1/p}.
$$
Q: Is this a norm?
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Non-linear positive map
In the paper titled "Nonlinear completely positive maps" M. D. Choi and T. Ando extended natural definition of completely positive maps ignoring the linearity condition (Aspects of positivity in ...
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Which operators on the trace-class operators extend to operators on Hilbert-Schmidt operators?
Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a separable Hilbert space and let $TC( \mathcal{H})$, $HS(\mathcal{H})$ be the space of trace-class operators and Hilbert-Schmidt operators on $\mathcal{H}$. Recall that these ...
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Making Hermitian matrices almost commute
Consider two Hermitian matrices $A, B \in \mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$. I'm interested in finding another Hermitian matrix $A'$ that is close to $A$ and almost commutes with $B$. More precisely, I'd like ...
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Recovering the matrix when the Schur decomposition of its blocks are known
Let E be a real symmetric matrix in $M_n(\mathbb{R})$ where $ n=2m$ and
$$E=\left(\begin{array}{cc}
G & X \\
X^t & H
\end{array}\right)$$
where $G,H,X$ are $m\times m$ matrices.
Suppose that $...
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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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tensor stability of block-positive matrices
Let $X_{AB}$ be an operator acting on the tensor-product Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_A \otimes \mathcal{H}_B$. Suppose that $X_{AB}$ is block positive, meaning that (in Dirac notation)
$\langle \psi |...
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Example of a unital contractive map that is not completely positive on an operator system
I am aware of maps that are positive but not completely positive (for example transpose map). BUT I can not think of an example of the following type.
Does there exist an operator $T$ such that a map $...
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Dimension of commutant
Suppose that $A = M_n(\mathbb{C})$ be the algebra of $n*n$ matrices over $\mathbb{C}$.
If com(A) = {$B \in M_n(\mathbb{C}); AB = BA$}, then what is the $dim(com(A))?$
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A particular commutator of the discrete Fourier matrix
For $N$ be a fixed natural number, define $w=e^{\frac{2\pi i}{N}}$ and $z=e^{\frac{\pi i}{N}}$, so that $z^2=w$. Let $D$ be the diagonal matrix $D=\operatorname{diag}(1,z,z^2,\ldots,z^{N-1})$ and $F$ ...
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Is a $1_A \otimes U$ invariant subspace of $\mathcal{H}_A \otimes \mathcal{H}_B$ a product $V_A \otimes \mathcal{H}_B$?
Consider a subspace $V$ of $\mathcal{H}_A \otimes \mathcal{H}_B$, with $\mathcal{H}_A$ and $\mathcal{H}_B$ finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, that is $1_A \otimes U$ invariant for all unitary ...
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Transforming nilpotency into diagonalizability [closed]
We designate the $k$-th standard vector as $e_k$ in $\mathbb{C}^n$.
We consider the backward shift operator, denoted as $T: \mathbb{C}^n \to \mathbb{C}^n$, which is defined as follows:
$Te_1=0$ and $...
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Differential form of the multidimensional "orthogonal dilation" operator
For a one-dimensional $f(x)$, the dilation operator $f(ax)$ can be expressed as $\exp(g(D))f(x)$, where $g$ is a closed-form function. This is easily checked by e.g. formal Taylor series expansion.
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