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    Gyrations: The Missing Link Between Classical Mechanics with its Underlying Euclidean Geometry and Relativistic Mechanics with its Underlying Hyperbolic Geometry

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    Being neither commutative nor associative, Einstein velocity addition of relativistically admissible velocities gives rise to gyrations. Gyrations, in turn, measure the extent to which Einstein addition deviates from commutativity and from associativity. Gyrations are geometric automorphisms abstracted from the relativistic mechanical effect known as Thomas precession

    An Introduction to Hyperbolic Barycentric Coordinates and their Applications

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    Barycentric coordinates are commonly used in Euclidean geometry. The adaptation of barycentric coordinates for use in hyperbolic geometry gives rise to hyperbolic barycentric coordinates, known as gyrobarycentric coordinates. The aim of this article is to present the road from Einstein's velocity addition law of relativistically admissible velocities to hyperbolic barycentric coordinates along with applications.Comment: 66 pages, 3 figure

    Distances of qubit density matrices on Bloch sphere

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    We recall the Einstein velocity addition on the open unit ball \B of R3\R^{3} and its algebraic structure, called the Einstein gyrogroup. We establish an isomorphism between the Einstein gyrogroup on \B and the set of all qubit density matrices representing mixed states endowed with an appropriate addition. Our main result establishes a relation between the trace metric for the qubit density matrices and the rapidity metric on the Einstein gyrogroup \B.Comment: I thank to my supervisor, Jimmie Lawson. This was accepted in Journal of Mathematical Physics at September 26, 201

    Geometric interpretation for A-fidelity and its relation with Bures fidelity

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    A geometric interpretation for the A-fidelity between two states of a qubit system is presented, which leads to an upper bound of the Bures fidelity. The metrics defined based on the A-fidelity are studied by numerical method. An alternative generalization of the A-fidelity, which has the same geometric picture, to a NN-state quantum system is also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Phys. Rev.
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