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We study the positive-definite completion problem for kernels on a variety of domains and prove results concerning the existence, uniqueness, and characterization of solutions. In particular, we study a special solution called the canonical…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Kartik G. Waghmare , Victor M. Panaretos

A Hilbert space embedding for probability measures has recently been proposed, with applications including dimensionality reduction, homogeneity testing, and independence testing. This embedding represents any probability measure as a mean…

We present sufficient condition for a family of positive definite kernels on a compact two-point homogeneous space to be strictly positive definite based on their representation as a series of spherical harmonics. The family analyzed is a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Jean Carlo Guella , Janin Jäger

We study a family of free stochastic processes whose covariance kernels $K$ may be derived as a transform of a tempered measure $\sigma$. These processes arise, for example, in consideration non-commutative analysis involving free…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen , Guy Salomon

We study the minimization of the energy integral $I_K(\mu) = \int_{\Omega} \int_{\Omega} K(x,y) d\mu(x) d\mu(y)$ over all Borel probability measures $\mu$, where $(\Omega,\rho)$ is a compact connected metric space and $K:\Omega^2 \to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Steven B. Damelin , Joel Nathe

We introduce the notion of quantum duplicates of an (associative, unital) algebra, motivated by the problem of constructing toy-models for quantizations of certain configuration spaces in quantum mechanics. The proposed (algebraic) model…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Óscar Cortadellas , Javier López Peña , Gabriel Navarro

This note consists of two largely independent parts. In the first part we give conditions on the kernel $k: \Omega \times \Omega \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space $H$ continuously embedded via the identity…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Marcin Wnuk

We discuss symmetric quantum measurements and the associated covariant observables modelled, respectively, as instruments and positive-operator-valued measures. The emphasis of this work are the optimality properties of the measurements,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Erkka Haapasalo , Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

In this article we study the field of Hilbertian metrics and positive definit (pd) kernels on probability measures, they have a real interest in kernel methods. Firstly we will make a study based on the Alpha-Beta-divergence to have a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-18 Mactar Ndaw , Macoumba Ndour , Papa Ngom

In this paper, we give a new approach to the theory of strictly positive kernels. Our method is based on the structure of Fock spaces. As its applications, various examples of strictly positive kernels are given. Moreover, we give a new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Michio Seto

Motivated by applications, we consider here new operator theoretic approaches to Conditional mean embeddings (CME). Our present results combine a spectral analysis-based optimization scheme with the use of kernels, stochastic processes, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song , James Tian

Kolmogorov decomposition for a given completely positive definite kernel is a generalization of Paschke's GNS construction for the completely positive map. Using Kolmogorov decomposition, to every quantum dynamical semigroup (QDS) for…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Santanu Dey , Dimple Saini , Harsh Trivedi

We prove a factorization theorem for reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces whose kernel has a normalized complete Nevanlinna-Pick factor. This result relates the functions in the original space to pointwise multipliers determined by the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Alexandru Aleman , Michael Hartz , John E. McCarthy , Stefan Richter

We study the positive-definiteness of a family of $L^2(\mathbf{R})$ integral operators with kernel $K_{t, a}(x, y) = (1 + (x - y)^2 + a(x^2 + y^2)^t)^{-1}$, with $t > 0$ and $a > 0$. When $0 < t \le 1$, the known theory of positive-definite…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Charles E. Baker

We supply a Fourier characterization for the real, continuous, isotropic and strictly positive definite kernels on a product of circles.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 J. C. Guella , V. A. Menegatto , A. P. Peron

We review machine learning methods employing positive definite kernels. These methods formulate learning and estimation problems in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) of functions defined on the data domain, expanded in terms of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Thomas Hofmann , Bernhard Schölkopf , Alexander J. Smola

Linearized polynomials have attracted a lot of attention because of their applications in both geometric and algebraic areas. Let $q$ be a prime power, $n$ be a positive integer and $\sigma$ be a generator of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

We study how iterated and composed completely positive maps act on operator-valued kernels. Each kernel is realized inside a single Hilbert space where composition corresponds to applying bounded creation operators to feature vectors. This…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 James Tian

The use of kernel functions is a common technique to extract important features from data sets. A quantum computer can be used to estimate kernel entries as transition amplitudes of unitary circuits. Quantum kernels exist that, subject to…

This work aims to prove that the classical Gaussian kernel, when defined on a non-Euclidean symmetric space, is never positive-definite for any choice of parameter. To achieve this goal, the paper develops new geometric and analytical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Nathael Da Costa , Cyrus Mostajeran , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Salem Said