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.
References
- Truth anchor:
D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.L - Truth anchor:
D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.U - Truth anchor:
D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.constructed_value_gap - Truth anchor:
D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.crownWeight - Truth anchor:
D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.npa1Feasible - Truth anchor:
D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.npa1Value - Truth anchor:
D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownMomentCertificate.objective - Dependency: D5/S3/Quantum/Optimization/WeightedCrownSpectralBound