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Matrix algebras and displacement decompositions
A class xi of algebras of symmetric nxn matrices, related to Toeplitz-plus-Hankel structures and including the well-known algebra H diagonalized by the Hartley transform, is investigated. The algebras of xi are then exploited in a general displacement decomposition of an arbitrary nxn matrix A. Any algebra of xi is a 1-space, i.e., it is spanned by n matrices having as first rows the vectors of the canonical basis. The notion of 1-space (which generalizes the previous notions of L1 space [Bevilacqua and Zellini, Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 25 (1989), pp.1-25] and Hessenberg algebra [Di Fiore and Zellini, Linear Algebra Appl., 229 (1995), pp.49-99]) finally leads to the identification in xi of three new (non-Hessenberg) matrix algebras close to H, which are shown to be associated with fast Hartley-type transforms. These algebras are also involved in new efficient centrosymmetric Toeplitz-plus-Hankel inversion formulas
Matrix algebras in quasi-newtonian algorithms for optimal learning in multi-layer perceptrons
In this work the authors implement in a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) environment a new class of quasi-newtonian (QN) methods. The algorithms proposed in the present paper use in the iterative scheme of a generalized BFGS-method a family of matrix algebras, recently introduced for displacement decompositions and for optimal preconditioning. This novel approach allows to construct methods having an O(n log_2 n) complexity. Numerical experiences compared with the performances of the best QN-algorithms known in the literature confirm the effectiveness of these new optimization techniques
Operational distance and fidelity for quantum channels
We define and study a fidelity criterion for quantum channels, which we term
the minimax fidelity, through a noncommutative generalization of maximal
Hellinger distance between two positive kernels in classical probability
theory. Like other known fidelities for quantum channels, the minimax fidelity
is well-defined for channels between finite-dimensional algebras, but it also
applies to a certain class of channels between infinite-dimensional algebras
(explicitly, those channels that possess an operator-valued Radon--Nikodym
density with respect to the trace in the sense of Belavkin--Staszewski) and
induces a metric on the set of quantum channels which is topologically
equivalent to the CB-norm distance between channels, precisely in the same way
as the Bures metric on the density operators associated with statistical states
of quantum-mechanical systems, derived from the well-known fidelity
(`generalized transition probability') of Uhlmann, is topologically equivalent
to the trace-norm distance.Comment: 26 pages, amsart.cls; improved intro, fixed typos, added a reference;
accepted by J. Math. Phy
The Lie Algebraic Significance of Symmetric Informationally Complete Measurements
Examples of symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued
measures (SIC-POVMs) have been constructed in every dimension less than or
equal to 67. However, it remains an open question whether they exist in all
finite dimensions. A SIC-POVM is usually thought of as a highly symmetric
structure in quantum state space. However, its elements can equally well be
regarded as a basis for the Lie algebra gl(d,C). In this paper we examine the
resulting structure constants, which are calculated from the traces of the
triple products of the SIC-POVM elements and which, it turns out, characterize
the SIC-POVM up to unitary equivalence. We show that the structure constants
have numerous remarkable properties. In particular we show that the existence
of a SIC-POVM in dimension d is equivalent to the existence of a certain
structure in the adjoint representation of gl(d,C). We hope that transforming
the problem in this way, from a question about quantum state space to a
question about Lie algebras, may help to make the existence problem tractable.Comment: 56 page
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