Grothendieck inequality
In mathematics, the Grothendieck inequality states that there is a universal constant k with the following property. If ai,j is an n by n (real or complex) matrix with
for all (real or complex) numbers si, tj of absolute value at most 1, then
- ,
for all vectors Si, Tj in the unit ball B(H) of a (real or complex) Hilbert space H, the constant k being independent of n. For a fixed n, the smallest constant which satisfies this property for all n by n matrices is called a Grothendieck constant and denoted k(n). In fact there are two Grothendieck constants kR(n) and kC(n) for each n depending on whether one works with real or complex numbers, respectively.[1]
The Grothendieck inequality and Grothendieck constants are named after Alexander Grothendieck, who proved the inequality and the existence of the constants in a paper published in 1953.[2]
Bounds on the constants
The sequences kR(n) and kC(n) are easily seen to be increasing, and Grothendieck's result states that they are bounded,[2][3] so they have limits.
With kR defined to be supn kR(n)[4] then Grothendieck proved that: .
Krivine (1979)[5] improved the result by proving: kR ≤ 1.7822139781...=, conjecturing that the upper bound is tight. However, this conjecture was disproved by Braverman et al. (2011).[6]
Grothendieck constant of order d
If we replace the (real or complex) Hilbert space H in the above definition with a (real or complex) d-dimensional Euclidean space, we get the constants kR(n, d) and kC(n, d) for the real and complex case, respectively. With increasing d these constants are monotone increasing and their limit is kR(n) and kC(n), respectively. For each d, with increasing n the constants are also increasing and their limit is the Grothendieck constant of order d which can be denoted as kR(∞, d) and kC(∞, d), respectively.
The Grothendieck constant kR(∞, 3) plays an essential role in the quantum nonlocality problem of the two-qubit Werner states. [7]
Lower bounds
Some historical data on best known lower bounds of kR(∞, d) is summarized in the following table. Implied bounds are shown in italics.
d | Grothendieck, 1953[2] | Clauser et al., 1969[8] | Davie, 1984[9] | Fishburn et al., 1994[10] | Vértesi, 2008[11] | Briët et al., 2011[12] | Hua et al., 2015[13] | Diviánszky et al., 2017[14] |
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2 | ≈ 1.41421 | |||||||
3 | 1.41421 | 1.41724 | 1.41758 | 1.4359 | ||||
4 | 1.44521 | 1.44566 | 1.4841 | |||||
5 | ≈ 1.42857 | 1.46007 | 1.46112 | 1.4841 | ||||
6 | 1.46007 | 1.47017 | 1.4841 | |||||
7 | 1.46286 | 1.47583 | 1.4841 | |||||
8 | 1.47586 | 1.47972 | 1.4841 | |||||
9 | 1.48608 | |||||||
... | ||||||||
∞ | ≈ 1.57079 | 1.67696 |
Upper bounds
Some historical data on best known upper bounds of kR(∞, d):
d | Grothendieck, 1953[2] | Rietz, 1974[15] | Krivine, 1979[5] | Braverman et al., 2011[6] | Hirsch et al., 2016[16] |
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2 | ≈ 1.41421 | ||||
3 | 1.5163 | 1.4663 | |||
4 | ≈ 1.5708 | ||||
... | |||||
8 | 1.6641 | ||||
... | |||||
∞ | ≈ 2.30130 | 2.261 | ≈ 1.78221 |
See also
References
- ↑ Pisier, Gilles (April 2012), "Grothendieck's Theorem, Past and Present", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 49 (2): 237–323, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01348-9.
- 1 2 3 4 Grothendieck, Alexander (1953), "Résumé de la théorie métrique des produits tensoriels topologiques", Bol. Soc. Mat. Sao Paulo, 8: 1–79, MR 0094682
- ↑ Blei, Ron C. (1987), "An elementary proof of the Grothendieck inequality", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, 100 (1): 58–60, ISSN 0002-9939, JSTOR 2046119, MR 883401, doi:10.2307/2046119
- ↑ Finch, Steven R. (2003), Mathematical constants, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-81805-6
- 1 2 Krivine, J.-L. (1979), "Constantes de Grothendieck et fonctions de type positif sur les sphères", Advances in Mathematics, 31 (1): 16–30, ISSN 0001-8708, MR 521464, doi:10.1016/0001-8708(79)90017-3
- 1 2 Braverman, Mark; Makarychev, Konstantin; Makarychev, Yury; Naor, Assaf (2011), "The Grothendieck Constant is Strictly Smaller than Krivine's Bound", 52nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pp. 453–462, arXiv:1103.6161 , doi:10.1109/FOCS.2011.77
- ↑ Acín, Antonio; Gisin, Nicolas; Toner, Benjamin (2006), Grothendieck’s constant and local models for noisy entangled quantum states, Physical Review A
- ↑ Clauser, John F.; Horne, Michael A.; Shimony, Abner; Holt, Richard A. (1969), Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories, 23, Physical Review Letters, p. 880
- ↑ Davie, A. M. (1984), Unpublished
- ↑ Fishburn, P. C.; Reeds, J. A. (1994), Bell Inequalities, Grothendieck’s Constant, and Root Two, 7 (1), SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, pp. 48–56, doi:10.1137/S0895480191219350
- ↑ Vértesi, Tamás (2008), More efficient Bell inequalities for Werner states, Physical Review A
- ↑ Briët, Jop; Buhrman, Harry; Toner, Ben (2011), A Generalized Grothendieck Inequality and Nonlocal Correlations that Require High Entanglement, Communications in Mathematical Physics
- ↑ Hua, Bobo; Li, Ming; Zhang, Tinggui; Zhou, Chunqin; Li-Jost, Xianqing; Fei, Shao-Ming (2015), Towards Grothendieck Constants and LHV Models in Quantum Mechanics, 48 (6), Journal of Physics A, p. 065302, doi:10.1088/1751-8113/48/6/065302
- ↑ Diviánszky, Péter; Bene, Erika; Vértesi, Tamás (2017), Qutrit witness from the Grothendieck constant of order four, 96, Physical Review A, p. 012113
- ↑ Rietz, Ronald E. (1974), A proof of the Grothendieck inequality, 19 (3), Israel Journal of Mathematics, pp. 271–276, doi:10.1007/BF02757725
- ↑ Hirsch, Flavien; Quintino, Marco Túlio; Vértesi, Tamás; Navascués, Miguel; Brunner, Nicolas, Better local hidden variable models for two-qubit Werner states and an upper bound on the Grothendieck constant (PDF), arXiv:1609.06114
External links
- Weisstein, Eric Wolfgang. "Grothendieck's Constant". MathWorld.
(NB: the historical part is not exact there.)