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On Schrodinger's bridge problem

Mathematical Physics 2018-02-14 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

In the first part of this paper we generalize the result of Georgiou-Pavon that a positive square matrix can be scaled uniquely to a column stochastic matrix which maps a given positive probability vector to another given positive probability vector. In the second part of this paper we prove that a positive quantum channel can be scaled to another positive quantum channel which maps a given positive definite density matrix to another given positive definite density matrix using Brower's fixed point theorem. This result proves the Georgiou-Pavon conjecture for two positive definite density matrices in their recent paper. We show uniqueness of fixed points for certain two positive definite density matrices.

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@article{arxiv.1608.05862,
  title  = {On Schrodinger's bridge problem},
  author = {Shmuel Friedland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05862},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages, slightly revised version

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