95 research outputs found
Codes as fractals and noncommutative spaces
We consider the CSS algorithm relating self-orthogonal classical linear codes
to q-ary quantum stabilizer codes and we show that to such a pair of a
classical and a quantum code one can associate geometric spaces constructed
using methods from noncommutative geometry, arising from rational
noncommutative tori and finite abelian group actions on Cuntz algebras and
fractals associated to the classical codes.Comment: 18 pages LaTeX, one png figur
Dynamical Systems on Spectral Metric Spaces
Let (A,H,D) be a spectral triple, namely: A is a C*-algebra, H is a Hilbert
space on which A acts and D is a selfadjoint operator with compact resolvent
such that the set of elements of A having a bounded commutator with D is dense.
A spectral metric space, the noncommutative analog of a complete metric space,
is a spectral triple (A,H,D) with additional properties which guaranty that the
Connes metric induces the weak*-topology on the state space of A. A
*-automorphism respecting the metric defined a dynamical system. This article
gives various answers to the question: is there a canonical spectral triple
based upon the crossed product algebra AxZ, characterizing the metric
properties of the dynamical system ? If is the noncommutative analog
of an isometry the answer is yes. Otherwise, the metric bundle construction of
Connes and Moscovici is used to replace (A,) by an equivalent dynamical
system acting isometrically. The difficulties relating to the non compactness
of this new system are discussed. Applications, in number theory, in coding
theory are given at the end
Noncommutative Geometry and String Duality
A review of the applications of noncommutative geometry to a systematic
formulation of duality symmetries in string theory is presented. The spectral
triples associated with a lattice vertex operator algebra and the corresponding
Dirac-Ramond operators are constructed and shown to naturally incorporate
target space and discrete worldsheet dualities as isometries of the
noncommutative space. The target space duality and diffeomorphism symmetries
are shown to act as gauge transformations of the geometry. The connections with
the noncommutative torus and Matrix Theory compactifications are also
discussed.Comment: 17 pages, Latex2e, uses JHEP.cls (included); Based on talk given by
the first author at the 6th Hellenic School and Workshop on Elementary
Particle Physics, Corfu, Greece, September 6-26 1998. To be published in JHEP
proceeding
Principles and Parameters: a coding theory perspective
We propose an approach to Longobardi's parametric comparison method (PCM) via
the theory of error-correcting codes. One associates to a collection of
languages to be analyzed with the PCM a binary (or ternary) code with one code
words for each language in the family and each word consisting of the binary
values of the syntactic parameters of the language, with the ternary case
allowing for an additional parameter state that takes into account phenomena of
entailment of parameters. The code parameters of the resulting code can be
compared with some classical bounds in coding theory: the asymptotic bound, the
Gilbert-Varshamov bound, etc. The position of the code parameters with respect
to some of these bounds provides quantitative information on the variability of
syntactic parameters within and across historical-linguistic families. While
computations carried out for languages belonging to the same family yield codes
below the GV curve, comparisons across different historical families can give
examples of isolated codes lying above the asymptotic bound.Comment: 11 pages, LaTe
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