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Defect and equivalence of unitary matrices. The Fourier case

Wojciech Tadej
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Consider the real space D_U of directions moving into which from a unitary N x N matrix U we do not disturb its unitarity and the moduli of its entries in the first order. dim( D_U ) is called the defect of U and denoted D(U). We give an account of Alexander Karabegov's theory where D_U is parametrized by the imaginary subspace of the eigenspace, associated with lambda = 1, of a certain unitary operator I_U on the N x N complex matrices, and where D(U) is the multiplicity of 1 in the spectrum of I_U. This characterization allows us to establish dependence of D(U_1 x ... x U_r) - where x stands for the Kronecker product - on D(U_k)'s, to derive formulas expressing D(F) for a Fourier matrix F of the size being a power of a prime number, as well as to show the multiplicativity of D(F) with respect to Kronecker factors of F if their sizes are pairwise relatively prime. Also partly due to the role of symmetries of U in the determination of the eigenspaces of I_U we study the 'permute and enphase' symmetries and equivalence of Fourier matrices, associated with arbitrary finite abelian groups.

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Wojciech Tadej. 2014-06-26. Defect and equivalence of unitary matrices. The Fourier case. https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8119

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