Compressed Power Defect
Abstract
A coisometric compression has a quadratic power defect controlled by its two-step leakage.
Theorem 1.1 (Compressed powers have a binomial leakage bound).
Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S3/Quantum/Dynamics/CompressedPowerDefect.compressed_power_defect (✓ std3). ∎
Source. Repository-derived.
Commentary.
Let F be a coisometry between finite-dimensional real or complex inner-product spaces, and let S be a self-adjoint operator bounded in norm by b. The operator P = F*F is the visible projection and Q = I-P is its orthogonal complement.
The quadratic compression defect is exactly the path that leaves the visible subspace through Q and returns after the second application of S.
For every higher power, a commutator expansion controls hidden leakage at each possible crossing time. Iterating the resulting defect recursion sums these contributions to the binomial coefficient n choose 2.