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A triangle of dualities: reversibly decomposable quantum channels, source-channel duality, and time reversal
Two quantum information processing protocols are said to be dual under
resource reversal if the resources consumed (generated) in one protocol are
generated (consumed) in the other. Previously known examples include the
duality between entanglement concentration and dilution, and the duality
between coherent versions of teleportation and super-dense coding. A quantum
feedback channel is an isometry from a system belonging to Alice to a system
shared between Alice and Bob. We show that such a resource may be reversibly
decomposed into a perfect quantum channel and pure entanglement, generalizing
both of the above examples. The dual protocols responsible for this
decomposition are the ``feedback father'' (FF) protocol and the ``fully quantum
reverse Shannon'' (FQRS) protocol. Moreover, the ``fully quantum Slepian-Wolf''
protocol (FQSW), a generalization of the recently discovered ``quantum state
merging'', is related to FF by source-channel duality, and to FQRS by time
reversal duality, thus forming a triangle of dualities. The source-channel
duality is identified as the origin of the previously poorly understood
``mother-father'' duality. Due to a symmetry breaking, the dualities extend
only partially to classical information theory.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Properties of Intersecting p-branes in Various Dimensions
General properties of intersecting extremal p-brane solutions of gravity
coupled with dilatons and several different d-form fields in arbitrary
space-time dimensions are considered. It is show that heuristically expected
properties of the intersecting p-branes follow from the explicit formulae for
solutions. In particular, harmonic superposition and S-duality hold for all
p-brane solutions. Generalized T-duality takes place under additional
restrictions on the initial theory parameters .Comment: 14 pages, RevTeX, misprints are corrected and more Comments are
added, information about one of the authors (M.G.I.) available at
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/419
The coalescing-branching random walk on expanders and the dual epidemic process
Information propagation on graphs is a fundamental topic in distributed
computing. One of the simplest models of information propagation is the push
protocol in which at each round each agent independently pushes the current
knowledge to a random neighbour. In this paper we study the so-called
coalescing-branching random walk (COBRA), in which each vertex pushes the
information to randomly selected neighbours and then stops passing
information until it receives the information again. The aim of COBRA is to
propagate information fast but with a limited number of transmissions per
vertex per step. In this paper we study the cover time of the COBRA process
defined as the minimum time until each vertex has received the information at
least once. Our main result says that if is an -vertex -regular graph
whose transition matrix has second eigenvalue , then the COBRA cover
time of is , if is greater than a positive
constant, and , if . These bounds are independent of and hold for . They improve the previous bound of for expander graphs.
Our main tool in analysing the COBRA process is a novel duality relation
between this process and a discrete epidemic process, which we call a biased
infection with persistent source (BIPS). A fixed vertex is the source of an
infection and remains permanently infected. At each step each vertex other
than selects neighbours, independently and uniformly, and is
infected in this step if and only if at least one of the selected neighbours
has been infected in the previous step. We show the duality between COBRA and
BIPS which says that the time to infect the whole graph in the BIPS process is
of the same order as the cover time of the COBRA proces
Building flat space-time from information exchange between quantum fluctuations
We consider a hypothesis in which classical space-time emerges from
information exchange (interactions) between quantum fluctuations in the gravity
theory. In this picture, a line element would arise as a statistical average of
how frequently particles interact, through an individual rate
and spatially interconnecting rates . The question is if space-time
can be modelled consistently in this way. The ansatz would be opposite to the
standard treatment of space-time as insensitive to altered physics at event
horizons (disrupted propagation of information) but by extension relate to the
connection of space-time to entanglement (interactions) through the
gauge/gravity duality. We make a first, rough analysis of the implications this
type of quantization would have on the classical structure of flat space-time,
and of what would be required of the interactions. Seeing no obvious reason for
why the origin would be unrealistic, we comment on expected effects in the
presence of curvature.Comment: 22 pages. v3: extended introductio
On the relationship between matched filter theory as applied to gust loads and phased design loads analysis
A theoretical basis and example calculations are given that demonstrate the relationship between the Matched Filter Theory approach to the calculation of time-correlated gust loads and Phased Design Load Analysis in common use in the aerospace industry. The relationship depends upon the duality between Matched Filter Theory and Random Process Theory and upon the fact that Random Process Theory is used in Phased Design Loads Analysis in determining an equiprobable loads design ellipse. Extensive background information describing the relevant points of Phased Design Loads Analysis, calculating time-correlated gust loads with Matched Filter Theory, and the duality between Matched Filter Theory and Random Process Theory is given. It is then shown that the time histories of two time-correlated gust load responses, determined using the Matched Filter Theory approach, can be plotted as parametric functions of time and that the resulting plot, when superposed upon the design ellipse corresponding to the two loads, is tangent to the ellipse. The question is raised of whether or not it is possible for a parametric load plot to extend outside the associated design ellipse. If it is possible, then the use of the equiprobable loads design ellipse will not be a conservative design practice in some circumstances
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