Equality condition for a matrix inequality by partial transpose
Abstract
The partial transpose map is a linear map widely used quantum information theory. We study the equality condition for a matrix inequality generated by partial transpose, namely , where 's and 's are respectively the matrices of the same size, and is the Schmidt rank. We explicitly construct the condition when 's are column or row vectors, or matrices. For the case where the Schmidt rank equals the dimension of , we extend the results from matrices to square matrices, and further to rectangular matrices. In detail, we show that is locally equivalent to an elegant block-diagonal form consisting solely of identity and zero matrices. We also study the general case for , and it turns out that the key is to characterize the expression of matrices 's and 's.
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@article{arxiv.2508.18644,
title = {Equality condition for a matrix inequality by partial transpose},
author = {Nalan Wang and Lin Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18644},
year = {2025}
}
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21 pages