Circulant matrices with orthogonal rows and off-diagonal entries of absolute value 1

Autor: Zuzana Václavíková, Ondřej Turek, Dardo Goyeneche, Daniel Uzcátegui Contreras
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Communications in Mathematics, Vol 29, Iss 1, Pp 15-34 (2021)
DOI: 10.2478/cm-2021-0005
Popis: It is known that a real symmetric circulant matrix with diagonal entries $d\geq0$, off-diagonal entries $\pm1$ and orthogonal rows exists only of order $2d+2$ (and trivially of order $1$) [Turek and Goyeneche 2019]. In this paper we consider a complex Hermitian analogy of those matrices. That is, we study the existence and construction of Hermitian circulant matrices having orthogonal rows, diagonal entries $d\geq0$ and any complex entries of absolute value $1$ off the diagonal. As a particular case, we consider matrices whose off-diagonal entries are 4th roots of unity; we prove that the order of any such matrix with $d$ different from an odd integer is $n=2d+2$. We also discuss a similar problem for symmetric circulant matrices defined over finite rings $\mathbb{Z}_m$. As an application of our results, we show a close connection to mutually unbiased bases, an important open problem in quantum information theory.
Comment: 16 pages, revised version: text partly rewritten, several new results added
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