scholarly journals Entanglement wedge reconstruction of infinite-dimensional von Neumann algebras using tensor networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Jinwoo Kang ◽  
David K. Kolchmeyer
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 988-1023
Author(s):  
Clayton Suguio Hida ◽  
Piotr Koszmider

AbstractA subset ${\mathcal{X}}$ of a C*-algebra ${\mathcal{A}}$ is called irredundant if no $A\in {\mathcal{X}}$ belongs to the C*-subalgebra of ${\mathcal{A}}$ generated by ${\mathcal{X}}\setminus \{A\}$. Separable C*-algebras cannot have uncountable irredundant sets and all members of many classes of nonseparable C*-algebras, e.g., infinite dimensional von Neumann algebras have irredundant sets of cardinality continuum.There exists a considerable literature showing that the question whether every AF commutative nonseparable C*-algebra has an uncountable irredundant set is sensitive to additional set-theoretic axioms, and we investigate here the noncommutative case.Assuming $\diamondsuit$ (an additional axiom stronger than the continuum hypothesis), we prove that there is an AF C*-subalgebra of ${\mathcal{B}}(\ell _{2})$ of density $2^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}_{1}$ with no nonseparable commutative C*-subalgebra and with no uncountable irredundant set. On the other hand we also prove that it is consistent that every discrete collection of operators in ${\mathcal{B}}(\ell _{2})$ of cardinality continuum contains an irredundant subcollection of cardinality continuum.Other partial results and more open problems are presented.


1977 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Guyan Robertson

We investigate here the question of uniqueness of best approximation to operators in von Neumann algebras by elements of certain linear subspaces. Recall that a linear subspace V of a Banach space X is called a Chebyshev subspace if each vector in X has a unique best approximation by vectors in V. Our first main result characterizes the one-dimensional Chebyshev subspaces of a von Neumann algebra. This may be regarded as a generalization of a result of Stampfli [(4), theorem 2, corollary] which states that the scalar multiples of the identity operator form a Chebyshev subspace. Alternatively it may be regarded as a generalization of the commutative situation in which a continuous complex-valued function f on a compact Hausdorff space X spans a Chebyshev subspace of C(X) if and only if f does not vanish on X [(3), p. 215]. Our second main result is that a finite dimensional * subalgebra, of dimension > 1, of an infinite dimensional von Neumann algebra cannot be a Chebyshev subspace. This imposes limits to further generalization of Stampfli's result.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serban-Valentin Stratila ◽  
Laszlo Zsido

Author(s):  
Ivan Bardet ◽  
Ángela Capel ◽  
Cambyse Rouzé

AbstractIn this paper, we derive a new generalisation of the strong subadditivity of the entropy to the setting of general conditional expectations onto arbitrary finite-dimensional von Neumann algebras. This generalisation, referred to as approximate tensorization of the relative entropy, consists in a lower bound for the sum of relative entropies between a given density and its respective projections onto two intersecting von Neumann algebras in terms of the relative entropy between the same density and its projection onto an algebra in the intersection, up to multiplicative and additive constants. In particular, our inequality reduces to the so-called quasi-factorization of the entropy for commuting algebras, which is a key step in modern proofs of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality for classical lattice spin systems. We also provide estimates on the constants in terms of conditions of clustering of correlations in the setting of quantum lattice spin systems. Along the way, we show the equivalence between conditional expectations arising from Petz recovery maps and those of general Davies semigroups.


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