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20242026
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9 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantitative semidefinite certificates for ground-state energies of Pauli Hamiltonians

Igor Klep, Nando Leijenhorst, Victor Magron

The -local Hamiltonian problem is a central model for quantum many-body systems and Hamiltonian complexity. Semidefinite programming and noncommutative sum-of-squares hierarchie…

math.FA2026

Operator-Valued Positivstellensätze on Matrix Convex Sets and Free Products of Finite Abelian Groups

Abhay Jindal, Igor Klep, Scott McCullough

We prove a Positivstellensatz for operator-valued noncommutative polynomials that are positive on matrix convex sets. Specifically, let be an operator-valued polynomial in $B(H…

math.FA2026

Positive operator-valued noncommutative polynomials are squares

Abhay Jindal, Igor Klep, Scott McCullough

We establish operator-valued versions of the earlier foundational factorization results for noncommutative polynomials due to Helton (Ann.~Math., 2002) and one of the authors (Line…

math.NT2025

Classifying minimal vanishing sums of roots of unity

Louis Christie, Kenneth J. Dykema, Igor Klep

A vanishing sum of roots of unity is called minimal if no proper, nonempty sub-sum of it vanishes. This paper classifies all minimal vanishing sums of roots of unity of weight at m…

math.FA2025

Fejér--Riesz factorization for positive noncommutative trigonometric polynomials

Igor Klep, Jacob Levenson, Scott McCullough

We prove a Fejér-Riesz type factorization for positive matrix-valued noncommutative trigonometric polynomials on , where is either the…

math.OC2025

Upper bound hierarchies for noncommutative polynomial optimization

Igor Klep, Victor Magron, Gaël Massé +1

This work focuses on minimizing the eigenvalue of a noncommutative polynomial subject to a finite number of noncommutative polynomial inequality constraints. Based on the Helton-Mc…