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Generalized Complex Spherical Harmonics, Frame Functions, and Gleason Theorem

Mathematical Physics 2017-08-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

Consider a finite dimensional complex Hilbert space \cH\cH, with dim(\cH)3dim(\cH) \geq 3, define \bS(\cH):={x\cHx=1}\bS(\cH):= \{x\in \cH \:|\: ||x||=1\}, and let ν\cH\nu_\cH be the unique regular Borel positive measure invariant under the action of the unitary operators in \cH\cH, with ν\cH(\bS(\cH))=1\nu_\cH(\bS(\cH))=1. We prove that if a complex frame function f:\bS(\cH)\bCf : \bS(\cH)\to \bC satisfies f\cL2(\bS(\cH),ν\cH)f \in \cL^2(\bS(\cH), \nu_\cH), then it verifies Gleason's statement: There is a unique linear operator A:\cH\cHA: \cH \to \cH such that f(u)=<uAu>f(u) = < u| A u> for every u\bS(\cH)u \in \bS(\cH). AA is Hermitean when ff is real. No boundedness requirement is thus assumed on ff {\em a priori}.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4504,
  title  = {Generalized Complex Spherical Harmonics, Frame Functions, and Gleason Theorem},
  author = {Valter Moretti and Davide Pastorello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4504},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

9 pages, Accepted for publication in Ann. H. Poincar\'e

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