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We prove that the symbol of the characteristic function of a minimal contractive lifting is an injective map and that the converse also holds, using explicit computation and functional models. We discuss when the characteristic function of a lifting is a polynomial and present a series representation for the characteristic functions of liftings.

Based on a careful analysis of functional models for contractive multi-analytic operators we establish a one-to-one correspondence between unitary equivalence classes of minimal contractive liftings of a row contraction and injective symbols of contractive multi-analytic operators. This allows an effective construction and classification of all such liftings with given defects. Popescu's theory of characteristic functions of completely non-coisometric row contractions is obtained as a special case satisfying a Szeg\"{o} condition. In another special case of single contractions and defects equal to $1$ all non-zero Schur functions on the unit disk appear in the classification. It is also shown that the process of constructing liftings iteratively reflects itself in a factorization of the corresponding symbols., Comment: 25 pages

In a recent contribution, we introduced and applied a detector-independent method to uncover nonclassicality. Here, we extend those techniques and give more details on the performed analysis. We derive a general theory of the positive-operator-valued measure that describes multiplexing layouts with arbitrary detectors. From the resulting quantum version of a multinomial statistics, we infer nonclassicality probes based on a matrix of normally ordered moments. We discuss these criteria and apply the theory to our data which are measured with superconducting transition-edge sensors. Our experiment produces heralded multi-photon states from a parametric down-conversion light source. We show that the known notions of sub-Poisson and sub-binomial light can be deduced from our general approach, and we establish the concept of sub-multinomial light, which is shown to outperform the former two concepts of nonclassicality for our data., close to published version

We generalize the notion of subisometric liftings of row contractions for liftings of completely contractive covariant representations of W*-correspondences. A theory of characteristic functions for such liftings of covariant representations is presented.

In recent years, the study of slice monogenic functions has attracted more and more attention in the literature. In this paper, an extension of the well-known Dirac operator is defined which allows to establish the Lie superalgebra structure behind the theory of slice monogenic functions. Subsequently, an inner product is defined corresponding to this slice Dirac operator and its polynomial null-solutions are determined. Finally, analogues of the Hermite polynomials and Hermite functions are constructed in this context and their properties are studied., Comment: 19 pages

In this paper we prove an integral representation formula for the inverse Fueter mapping theorem for monogenic functions defined on axially symmetric open sets U ⊆ ℝ n+1, i.e. on open sets U invariant under the action of SO(n), where n is an odd number. Every monogenic function on such an open set U can be written as a series of axially monogenic functions of degree k, i.e. functions of type $$\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{f} _k (x) = \left[ {A\left( {x_{0,\rho } } \right) + \underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{\omega } {\rm B}\left( {x_{0,\rho } } \right)} \right]\mathcal{P}_k (\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{x} )$$ , where A(x 0, ρ) and B(x 0, ρ) satisfy a suitable Vekua-type system and $$\mathcal{P}_k (\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{x} )$$ is a homogeneous monogenic polynomial of degree k. The Fueter mapping theorem says that given a holomorphic function f of a paravector variable defined on U, then the function $$\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{f} _k (x)\mathcal{P}_k (\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{x} )$$ given by $$\Delta ^{k + \tfrac{{n - 1}} {2}} \left( {f(x)\mathcal{P}_k (\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{x} )} \right) = \overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{f} (x)\mathcal{P}_k (\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{x} )$$ is a monogenic function. The aim of this paper is to invert the Fueter mapping theorem by determining a holomorphic function f of a paravector variable in terms of $$\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{f} _k (x)\mathcal{P}_k (\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{x} )$$ . This result allows one to invert the Fueter mapping theorem for any monogenic function defined on an axially symmetric open set.

We study a coisometry that intertwines Popescu's presentations of minimal isometric dilations of a given operator tuple and of a coisometric lifting of the tuple. Using this we develop an outgoing Cuntz scattering system which gives rise to an input-output formalism. A transfer function is introduced for the system. We also compare the transfer function and the characteristic function for the associated lifting., 14 pages

In a recent paper the authors have shown how to give an integral representation of the Fueter mapping theorem using the Cauchy formula for slice monogenic functions. Specifically, given a slice monogenic function $f$ of the form $f=\alpha+\underline{\omega}\beta$ (where $\alpha$, $\beta$ satisfy the Cauchy-Riemann equations) we represent in integral form the axially monogenic function $\bar{f}=A+\underline{\omega}B$ (where $A,B$ satisfy the Vekua's system) given by $\bar{f}(x)=\Delta^{\frac{n-1}{2}}f(x)$ where $\Delta$ is the Laplace operator in dimension $n+1$. In this paper we solve the inverse problem: given an axially monogenic function $\bar{f}$ determine a slice monogenic function $f$ (called Fueter's primitive of $\bar{f}$ such that $\bar{f}=\Delta^{\frac{n-1}{2}}f(x)$. We prove an integral representation theorem for $f$ in terms of $\bar{f}$ which we call the inverse Fueter mapping theorem (in integral form). Such a result is obtained also for regular functions of a quaternionic variable of axial type. The solution $f$ of the equation $\Delta^{\frac{n-1}{2}}f(x)=\bar{f} (x)$ in the Clifford analysis setting, i.e. the inversion of the classical Fueter mapping theorem, is new in the literature and has some consequences that are now under investigation.

We present a quantitative analysis of the reversibility properties of classically chaotic quantum motion. We analyze the connection between reversibility and the rate at which a quantum state acquires a more and more complicated structure in its time evolution. This complexity is characterized by the number ${\cal M}(t)$ of harmonics of the (initially isotropic, i.e. ${\cal M}(0)=0$) Wigner function, which are generated during quantum evolution for the time $t$. We show that, in contrast to the classical exponential increase, this number can grow not faster than linearly and then relate this fact with the degree of reversibility of the quantum motion. To explore the reversibility we reverse the quantum evolution at some moment $T$ immediately after applying at this moment an instant perturbation governed by a strength parameter $\xi$. It follows that there exists a critical perturbation strength, $\xi_c\approx \sqrt{2}/{\cal M}(T)$, below which the initial state is well recovered, whereas reversibility disappears when $\xi\gtrsim \xi_c(T)$. In the classical limit the number of harmonics proliferates exponentially with time and the motion becomes practically irreversible. The above results are illustrated in the example of the kicked quartic oscillator model., Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures; the list of references is updated