227 research outputs found
Unextendible mutually unbiased bases (after Mandayam, Bandyopadhyay, Grassl and Wootters)
We consider questions posed in a recent paper of Mandayam et al. (2014) on the nature of unextendible mutually unbiased bases. We describe a conceptual framework to study these questions, using a connection proved by the author in Thas (2009) between the set of nonidentity generalized Pauli operators on the Hilbert space of N d-level quantum systems, d a prime, and the geometry of non-degenerate alternating bilinear forms of rank N over finite fields F d
We then supply alternative and short proofs of results obtained in Mandayam et al. (2014), as well as new general bounds for the problems considered in loc. cit. In this setting, we also solve Conjecture 1 of Mandayam et al. (2014) and speculate on variations of this conjecture
Load-Balanced Fractional Repetition Codes
We introduce load-balanced fractional repetition (LBFR) codes, which are a
strengthening of fractional repetition (FR) codes. LBFR codes have the
additional property that multiple node failures can be sequentially repaired by
downloading no more than one block from any other node. This allows for better
use of the network, and can additionally reduce the number of disk reads
necessary to repair multiple nodes. We characterize LBFR codes in terms of
their adjacency graphs, and use this characterization to present explicit
constructions LBFR codes with storage capacity comparable existing FR codes.
Surprisingly, in some parameter regimes, our constructions of LBFR codes match
the parameters of the best constructions of FR codes
New Classes of Partial Geometries and Their Associated LDPC Codes
The use of partial geometries to construct parity-check matrices for LDPC
codes has resulted in the design of successful codes with a probability of
error close to the Shannon capacity at bit error rates down to . Such
considerations have motivated this further investigation. A new and simple
construction of a type of partial geometries with quasi-cyclic structure is
given and their properties are investigated. The trapping sets of the partial
geometry codes were considered previously using the geometric aspects of the
underlying structure to derive information on the size of allowable trapping
sets. This topic is further considered here. Finally, there is a natural
relationship between partial geometries and strongly regular graphs. The
eigenvalues of the adjacency matrices of such graphs are well known and it is
of interest to determine if any of the Tanner graphs derived from the partial
geometries are good expanders for certain parameter sets, since it can be
argued that codes with good geometric and expansion properties might perform
well under message-passing decoding.Comment: 34 pages with single column, 6 figure
Simple maps, Hurwitz numbers, and Topological Recursion
We introduce the notion of fully simple maps, which are maps with non
self-intersecting disjoint boundaries. In contrast, maps where such a
restriction is not imposed are called ordinary. We study in detail the
combinatorics of fully simple maps with topology of a disk or a cylinder. We
show that the generating series of simple disks is given by the functional
inversion of the generating series of ordinary disks. We also obtain an elegant
formula for cylinders. These relations reproduce the relation between moments
and free cumulants established by Collins et al. math.OA/0606431, and implement
the symplectic transformation on the spectral curve in
the context of topological recursion. We conjecture that the generating series
of fully simple maps are computed by the topological recursion after exchange
of and . We propose an argument to prove this statement conditionally to
a mild version of symplectic invariance for the -hermitian matrix model,
which is believed to be true but has not been proved yet.
Our argument relies on an (unconditional) matrix model interpretation of
fully simple maps, via the formal hermitian matrix model with external field.
We also deduce a universal relation between generating series of fully simple
maps and of ordinary maps, which involves double monotone Hurwitz numbers. In
particular, (ordinary) maps without internal faces -- which are generated by
the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble -- and with boundary perimeters
are strictly monotone double Hurwitz numbers
with ramifications above and above .
Combining with a recent result of Dubrovin et al. math-ph/1612.02333, this
implies an ELSV-like formula for these Hurwitz numbers.Comment: 66 pages, 7 figure
Homological mirror symmetry for toric orbifolds of toric del Pezzo surfaces
We formulate a conjecture which describes the Fukaya category of an exact
Lefschetz fibration defined by a Laurent polynomial in two variables in terms
of a pair consisting of a consistent dimer model and a perfect matching on it.
We prove this conjecture in some cases, and obtain homological mirror symmetry
for quotient stacks of toric del Pezzo surfaces by finite subgroups of the
torus as a corollary.Comment: 23 pages, 40 figures; v2:completely rewritten; v3:Incorporated
suggestions by the refere
Teichm\"uller spaces of Riemann surfaces with orbifold points of arbitrary order and cluster variables
We generalize a new class of cluster type mutations for which exchange
transformations are given by reciprocal polynomials. In the case of
second-order polynomials of the form these
transformations are related to triangulations of Riemann surfaces of arbitrary
genus with at least one hole/puncture and with an arbitrary number of orbifold
points of arbitrary integer orders . We propose the dual graph description
of the corresponding Teichm\"uller spaces, construct the Poisson algebra of the
Teichm\"uller space coordinates, propose the combinatorial description of the
corresponding geodesic functions and find the mapping class group
transformations.Comment: 20 pages, notations and many essential typos corrected, most
significantly, formulae 2.3, 2.5, proof of Lemmata 2.6 and 4.5. Journal
reference is added (published version contains typos
Uniformity in association schemes and coherent configurations: cometric Q-antipodal schemes and linked systems
Inspired by some intriguing examples, we study uniform association schemes
and uniform coherent configurations, including cometric Q-antipodal association
schemes. After a review of imprimitivity, we show that an imprimitive
association scheme is uniform if and only if it is dismantlable, and we cast
these schemes in the broader context of certain --- uniform --- coherent
configurations. We also give a third characterization of uniform schemes in
terms of the Krein parameters, and derive information on the primitive
idempotents of such a scheme. In the second half of the paper, we apply these
results to cometric association schemes. We show that each such scheme is
uniform if and only if it is Q-antipodal, and derive results on the parameters
of the subschemes and dismantled schemes of cometric Q-antipodal schemes. We
revisit the correspondence between uniform indecomposable three-class schemes
and linked systems of symmetric designs, and show that these are cometric
Q-antipodal. We obtain a characterization of cometric Q-antipodal four-class
schemes in terms of only a few parameters, and show that any strongly regular
graph with a ("non-exceptional") strongly regular decomposition gives rise to
such a scheme. Hemisystems in generalized quadrangles provide interesting
examples of such decompositions. We finish with a short discussion of
five-class schemes as well as a list of all feasible parameter sets for
cometric Q-antipodal four-class schemes with at most six fibres and fibre size
at most 2000, and describe the known examples. Most of these examples are
related to groups, codes, and geometries.Comment: 42 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. Published version, minor revisions,
April 201
On semi-finite hexagons of order containing a subhexagon
The research in this paper was motivated by one of the most important open
problems in the theory of generalized polygons, namely the existence problem
for semi-finite thick generalized polygons. We show here that no semi-finite
generalized hexagon of order can have a subhexagon of order .
Such a subhexagon is necessarily isomorphic to the split Cayley generalized
hexagon or its point-line dual . In fact, the employed
techniques allow us to prove a stronger result. We show that every near hexagon
of order which contains a generalized hexagon of
order as an isometrically embedded subgeometry must be finite. Moreover, if
then must also be a generalized hexagon, and
consequently isomorphic to either or the dual twisted triality hexagon
.Comment: 21 pages; new corrected proofs of Lemmas 4.6 and 4.7; earlier proofs
worked for generalized hexagons but not near hexagon
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