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An algebraic characterization of injectivity in phase retrieval

arXiv:1312.0158 · doi:10.1016/j.acha.2014.06.005

Abstract

A complex frame is a collection of vectors that span and define measurements, called intensity measurements, on vectors in . In purely mathematical terms, the problem of phase retrieval is to recover a complex vector from its intensity measurements, namely the modulus of its inner product with these frame vectors. We show that any vector is uniquely determined (up to a global phase factor) from generic measurements. To prove this, we identify the set of frames defining non-injective measurements with the projection of a real variety and bound its dimension.

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