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Is there a Jordan geometry underlying quantum physics?
There have been several propositions for a geometric and essentially
non-linear formulation of quantum mechanics. From a purely mathematical point
of view, the point of view of Jordan algebra theory might give new strength to
such approaches: there is a ``Jordan geometry'' belonging to the Jordan part of
the algebra of observables, in the same way as Lie groups belong to the Lie
part. Both the Lie geometry and the Jordan geometry are well-adapted to
describe certain features of quantum theory. We concentrate here on the
mathematical description of the Jordan geometry and raise some questions
concerning possible relations with foundational issues of quantum theory.Comment: 30 page
The Pure State Space of Quantum Mechanics as Hermitian Symmetric Space
The pure state space of Quantum Mechanics is investigated as Hermitian
Symmetric Kaehler manifold. The classical principles of Quantum Mechanics
(Quantum Superposition Principle, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Quantum
Probability Principle) and Spectral Theory of observables are discussed in this
non linear geometrical context.Comment: 18 pages, no figure
Equidistant Codes in the Grassmannian
Equidistant codes over vector spaces are considered. For -dimensional
subspaces over a large vector space the largest code is always a sunflower. We
present several simple constructions for such codes which might produce the
largest non-sunflower codes. A novel construction, based on the Pl\"{u}cker
embedding, for 1-intersecting codes of -dimensional subspaces over \F_q^n,
, where the code size is is
presented. Finally, we present a related construction which generates
equidistant constant rank codes with matrices of size
over \F_q, rank , and rank distance .Comment: 16 page
Problems on q-Analogs in Coding Theory
The interest in -analogs of codes and designs has been increased in the
last few years as a consequence of their new application in error-correction
for random network coding. There are many interesting theoretical, algebraic,
and combinatorial coding problems concerning these q-analogs which remained
unsolved. The first goal of this paper is to make a short summary of the large
amount of research which was done in the area mainly in the last few years and
to provide most of the relevant references. The second goal of this paper is to
present one hundred open questions and problems for future research, whose
solution will advance the knowledge in this area. The third goal of this paper
is to present and start some directions in solving some of these problems.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0805.3528 by other author
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