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Jordan Decomposition of Non-Hermitian Fermionic Quadratic Forms

Quantum Physics 2024-05-27 v3 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give a rigorous proof of Conjecture 3.1 by Prosen [Prosen T 2010 J. Stat. Mech. 2010\textbf{2010} P07020] on the nilpotent part of the Jordan decomposition of a quadratic fermionic Liouvillian. We also show that the number of the Jordan blocks of each size can be expressed in terms of the coefficients of a polynomial called the qq-binomial coefficient and describe the procedure to obtain the Jordan canonical form of the nilpotent part.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.01166,
  title  = {Jordan Decomposition of Non-Hermitian Fermionic Quadratic Forms},
  author = {Shunta Kitahama and Hironobu Yoshida and Ryo Toyota and Hosho Katsura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01166},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures; v3: some remarks added

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