Lars Brink and SIC_POVMs
Quantum Physics
2023-08-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The notion of SIC-POVMs comes from quantum information theory, and they were not on the horizon when I was Lars Brink's student in the early 80s. In the summer of 2022 I told Lars that I know how to use number theoretical insights to construct SIC-POVMs in any Hilbert space of dimension , and that the construction provides a geometric setting for some deep number theoretical conjectures. I will give a sketch of this development, of what it was like to be Lars' student, and of what his reaction to our construction was.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2308.13935,
title = {Lars Brink and SIC_POVMs},
author = {Ingemar Bengtsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13935},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
For the Memorial Volume for Lars Brink, to be published by World Scientific; 15 pages, one picture