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Upper Bounds for Grothendieck Constants, Quantum Correlation Matrices and CCP Functions

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  • Jun 2024

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Authors:
  1. Frank Oertel

    1. Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom

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  • Illuminates in detail a still open question in mathematics
  • Highlights ideas which will lead to new, long-term research projects
  • Reveals surprising links to neighbouring fields, including quantum information theory

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2349)

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Keywords

  • Grothendieck Inequality
  • Grothendieck Constants
  • Completely Correlation Preserving Functions
  • Schoenberg’s Theorem
  • Gamma Function
  • Hermite Polynomials
  • Gaussian Hypergeometric Function
  • Taylor Series Inversion

About this book

This book concentrates on the famous Grothendieck inequality and the continued search for the still unknown best possible value of the real and complex Grothendieck constant (an open problem since 1953). It describes in detail the state of the art in research on this fundamental inequality, including Krivine's recent contributions, and sheds light on related questions in mathematics, physics and computer science, particularly with respect to the foundations of quantum theory and quantum information theory. Unifying the real and complex cases as much as possible, the monograph introduces the reader to a rich collection of results in functional analysis and probability. In particular, it includes a detailed, self-contained analysis of the multivariate distribution of complex Gaussian random vectors. The notion of Completely Correlation Preserving (CCP) functions plays a particularly important role in the exposition.

The prerequisites are a basic knowledge of standard functional analysis, complex analysis, probability, optimisation and some number theory and combinatorics. However, readers missing some background will be able to consult the generous bibliography, which contains numerous references to useful textbooks.

The book will be of interest to PhD students and researchers in functional analysis, complex analysis, probability, optimisation, number theory and combinatorics, in physics (particularly in relation to the foundations of quantum mechanics) and in computer science (quantum information and complexity theory).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom

    Frank Oertel

About the author

Frank Oertel is an Honorary Research Associate at the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) in London. After studying mathematics and physics at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), he was a researcher at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and a lecturer at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland and the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests are primarily in functional analysis, including its applications to quantum mechanics, and applications of functional and stochastic analysis to problems in financial mathematics. He has also worked as a mathematical advisor in the financial industry, including banking supervision and audit (Frankfurt, Zurich, Bonn, Munich and London).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Upper Bounds for Grothendieck Constants, Quantum Correlation Matrices and CCP Functions

  • Authors: Frank Oertel

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57200-5Due: 08 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57201-2Due: 08 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8434

  • Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 210

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

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