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Weighted crown moment certificate

Abstract

A feasible level-one moment certificate with a strict value gap.

Definition 1.1 (Crown interval boundary L).

Formalization. D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.L (✓ std3).

Citation. J. Takahashi; C. Rayudu; C. Zhou; R. King; K. Thompson; O. Parekh (2023). An SU(2)-symmetric Semidefinite Programming Hierarchy for Quantum Max Cut. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15688. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688v3.

Commentary.

The lower boundary in Appendix C.1 is (n+2)^2/(4(n+1)).

Definition 1.2 (Crown interval boundary U).

Formalization. D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.U (✓ std3).

Citation. J. Takahashi; C. Rayudu; C. Zhou; R. King; K. Thompson; O. Parekh (2023). An SU(2)-symmetric Semidefinite Programming Hierarchy for Quantum Max Cut. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15688. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688v3.

Commentary.

The upper boundary of the interval left open in Appendix C.1 is (n+2)/3.

Definition 1.3 (The crown edge weights).

Formalization. D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.crownWeight (✓ std3).

Citation. J. Takahashi; C. Rayudu; C. Zhou; R. King; K. Thompson; O. Parekh (2023). An SU(2)-symmetric Semidefinite Programming Hierarchy for Quantum Max Cut. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15688. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688v3.

Commentary.

The central edge has weight x, each spoke has weight 1, and every pair of leaves has weight 0.

Definition 1.4 (Real level-one projector moments).

Formalization. D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.npa1Feasible (✓ std3).

Citation. J. Takahashi; C. Rayudu; C. Zhou; R. King; K. Thompson; O. Parekh (2023). An SU(2)-symmetric Semidefinite Programming Hierarchy for Quantum Max Cut. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15688. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688v3.

Commentary.

Section III defines NPA_l by positive semidefinite Hermitian moment matrices, identity normalization and the truncated operator relations. At the real first level these are exactly symmetry, the idempotent diagonals and the displayed adjacent-pair anticommutator. Disjoint commutation follows from symmetry.

Definition 1.5 (The moment objective).

Formalization. D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.objective (✓ std3).

Citation. J. Takahashi; C. Rayudu; C. Zhou; R. King; K. Thompson; O. Parekh (2023). An SU(2)-symmetric Semidefinite Programming Hierarchy for Quantum Max Cut. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15688. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688v3.

Commentary.

The objective sums each unordered pair once, with the literal crown weights.

Definition 1.6 (The real first-level optimum).

Formalization. D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.npa1Value (✓ std3).

Citation. J. Takahashi; C. Rayudu; C. Zhou; R. King; K. Thompson; O. Parekh (2023). An SU(2)-symmetric Semidefinite Programming Hierarchy for Quantum Max Cut. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15688. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688v3.

Commentary.

The source proves NPA_1 = NPA_1^R for any weighted graph. The encoding takes the real supremum of exactly the feasible objective values.

Theorem 1.7 (A strict moment-value gap).

Proof. Machine-checked in Lean as D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.constructed_value_gap (✓ std3). ∎

Source. Repository-derived.

Acknowledgement. J. Takahashi; C. Rayudu; C. Zhou; R. King; K. Thompson; O. Parekh (2023). An SU(2)-symmetric Semidefinite Programming Hierarchy for Quantum Max Cut. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.15688. URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15688v3.

Commentary.

An explicit Gram matrix supplies a feasible moment matrix throughout L < x < U. Its objective is n+1+(x-L)^2/(32n), which is strictly above n+1. Positive rank-one summands and positive scalar block coefficients certify the matrix.

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