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Semidefinite programming formulations for the completely bounded norm of a tensor

Quantum Physics 2019-01-16 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We show that a certain tensor norm, the completely bounded norm, can be expressed by a semidefinite program. This tensor norm recently attracted attention in the field of quantum computing, where it was used by Arunachalam, Bri\"{e}t and Palazuelos for characterizing the quantum query complexity of Boolean functions. Combined with their results, we obtain a new characterization of the quantum query complexity through semidefinite programming. Using the duality theory of semidefinite programming we obtain a new type of certificates for large query complexity. We show that our class of certificates encompasses the linear programming certificates corresponding to the approximate degree of a Boolean function.

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@article{arxiv.1901.04921,
  title  = {Semidefinite programming formulations for the completely bounded norm of a tensor},
  author = {Sander Gribling and Monique Laurent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04921},
  year   = {2019}
}
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