Positive contraction mappings for classical and quantum Schrödinger systems
Positive contraction mappings for classical and quantum Schrödinger systems
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经典和量子薛定谔系统的正收缩映射
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2014
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M. Pavon
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T. Georgiou;M. Pavon
The classical Schrodinger bridge seeks the most likely probability law for a diffusion process, in path space, that matches marginals at two end points in time; the likelihood is quantified by the relative entropy between the sought law and a prior. Jamison proved that the new law is obtained through a multiplicative functional transformation of the prior. This transformation is characterised by an automorphism on the space of endpoints probability measures, which has been studied by Fortet, Beurling, and others. A similar question can be raised for processes evolving in a discrete time and space as well as for processes defined over non-commutative probability spaces. The present paper builds on earlier work by Pavon and Ticozzi and begins by establishing solutions to Schrodinger systems for Markov chains. Our approach is based on the Hilbert metric and shows that the solution to the Schrodinger bridge is provided by the fixed point of a contractive map. We approach, in a similar manner, the steering of ...