The Paulsen Problem, Continuous Operator Scaling, and Smoothed Analysis

Tsz Chiu Kwok, Lap Chi Lau, Yin Tat Lee +1

The Paulsen problem is a basic open problem in operator theory: Given vectors $u_1,\dots ,u_n\in {\mathbb{R}}^d$ that are $\epsilon$-nearly satisfying the Parseval's condition and the equ…