A1 publication
Journal title
Linear Algebra and its Applications
Publication date
January 2016
Volume, issue & page range or art. n
493, (2016), 455-468.
Year
2016
Abstract
The Birkhoff's theorem states that any doubly stochastic matrix lies inside a convex polytope with the permutation matrices at the corners. We prove that any unitary matrix with equal line sums can also be written as a sum of permutation matrices (with sum of weights equal 1). Furthermore, when the matrix dimension is prime, we prove that the unitary matrix lies inside a convex complex Birkhoff polytope.
Research line
Many-particle physics