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A robust version of Schur's lemma?
Does a robust version of Schur's lemma exist? Specifically, I was wondering about something like this:
Let $B$ be a bounded operator over a vector space $V$, with underlying field $\mathbb{C}$ and ...
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What are some results that assume the Connes' embedding conjecture or any of its reformulations?
As you all (may) know, the Connes embedding conjecture was disproven last year. Also, as its Wikipedia page shows, there are multiple reformulations (but it is definitely not an exhaustive list):
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A 'Fock'-type construction on a $C^*$-algebra
In very rough terms, let $A$ be a complex unital $C^*$-algebra. Assume it nuclear for convenience, but it doesn't matter much. Consider the 'Fock'-type $C^*$-algebra (don't know a better name for it)
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Braided monoidal category of (generalized) operator algebras
In the paper "Quantum Collections" Kornell (2016) proved that the category of $W^*$ (von Neumann) (and iirc also $C^*$) algebras, equipped with a suitable choice of tensor product, forms a ...
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Is there a maximal finite depth infinite index irreducible subfactor?
A subfactor $N \subset M $ is irreducible if $N' \cap M = \mathbb{C} $.
It's maximal if it admits no non-trivial intermediate subfactors $N \subset P \subset M $.
It's cyclic if its lattice of ...
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Can any POVM be induced by a quantum instrument?
I suspect this is the obvious result of something in operator algebras, but that's far outside my field.
Recall that a projection-valued measure is a map $E$ from a sigma-algebra $\mathcal{F}$ on ...
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Integration of Weyl operators multiplied by quasifree state over a symplectic space
I am reading the book "An invitation to the Algebra of Canonical Commutation Relations" by Denes Petz. It is freely available for download here. In Chapter 9, he defines the Lebesgue measure on a ...
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Bohr topos and quantization
Bohrification is a natural way to construct a quantum "phase space" (with some nice insights on foundational problems like non-contextuality through Kochen-Specker etc). I was wondering, since we get ...
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Algebraic machinery for boundary conditions: may spectral data be "lifted" via the Toeplitz extension?
Let $\tilde{\mathcal H}$ be a Hilbert space, and let $L(\tilde{\mathcal H})$ denote the corresponding space of linear operators. By fixing a basis, we can, via Fourier transform, identify an important ...
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Extension of a bounded operator on manifold
I have a problem, which is quite urgent, as I have only today discovered an error in a proof i had in a thesis which is to be handed in tomorrow.
The problem, if stated in as full generality as ...
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Continuity of a linear functional for sequences of projections
Let $T_+$ be the set of a positive trace-class operators over some separable Hilbert space and
$A: T_+ \to \mathbb{R}\cup \{\infty\}$ some linear functional.
In general, $A$ will not be continuous. ...
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Characterization of the Subspace of Quasifree States of the CAR Algebra
Consider $\mathfrak U(\mathfrak H)$, the CAR algebra over a separable Hilbert space $\mathfrak H$. The states $E_{\mathfrak U}$ over this algebra are defined to be positive linear functionals of norm ...
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How to correctly name "irreducible subrepresentation of an indecomposable representation"
I am studying the representation theory of some infinite dimensional algebras, for example infinite dimensional Lie-algebras, Kac-Moody algebras, W-algebras. These algebras arise as symmetry algebras ...
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Tensor products as isomorphic functors in category theory
An earlier question that I posed sought to define a category with a set of quantum channels as arrows and the C$^{*}$-algebra that these channels map from and to as the object. So, for example, my ...
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Status of generalization of timelike tube theorem to algebras of causal completions
The timelike tube theorem states that the additive algebra $A_{\text{add}}(U)$ of operators in a spacetime region $U$ is equal to the additive algebra $A_{\text{add}}(E(U))$ of the timelike envelope $...
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