Uniqueness of a convex sum of products of projectors

Abstract

Relative to a given factoring of the Hilbert space, the decomposition of an operator into a convex sum of products over sets of distinct 1-projectors, one set linearly independent, is unique.

4 pages. v2: Minor clarifications in Section III; as accepted for publication in J Math Phys

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