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Spread complexity as classical dilaton solutions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-08-02 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate a relation between Nielsen's approach towards circuit complexity and Krylov complexity through a particular construction of quantum state space geometry. We start by associating K\"ahler structures on the full projective Hilbert space of low rank algebras. This geometric structure of the states in the Hilbert space ensures that every unitary transformation of the associated algebras leave the metric and the symplectic forms invariant. We further associate a classical matter free Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity model with these state manifolds and show that the dilaton can be interpreted as the quantum mechanical expectation values of the symmetry generators. On the other hand we identify the dilaton with the spread complexity over a Krylov basis thereby proposing a geometric perspective connecting two different notions of complexity.

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@article{arxiv.2302.10489,
  title  = {Spread complexity as classical dilaton solutions},
  author = {Arghya Chattopadhyay and Arpita Mitra and Hendrik J. R. van Zyl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10489},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

31 pages with 2 appendices, v2 has minor restructuring to increase readability matching the published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T08:45:18.636Z