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Quantum Wasserstein distances for quantum permutation groups

Operator Algebras 2025-09-04 v2

Abstract

We seek an analog for the quantum permutation group Sn+S_n^+ of the normalized Hamming distance for permutations. We define three distances on the tracial state space of C(Sn+)C(S_n^+) that generalize the L1L^1-Wasserstein distance of probability measures on SnS_n equipped with the normalized Hamming metric, for which we demonstrate basic metric properties, subadditivity under convolution, and density of the Lipschitz elements in the C\mathrm{C}^{\ast}-algebra.

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@article{arxiv.2505.19269,
  title  = {Quantum Wasserstein distances for quantum permutation groups},
  author = {Anshu and David Jekel and Therese Basa Landry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19269},
  year   = {2025}
}

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27 pages

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