Quantum Wasserstein Distance on the Quantum Permutation Group

Therese Landry
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Mathematics

We investigate quantum compact groups which support quantum metric space structure. In our core example, we define an analog of the Hamming metric on the quantum permutation group $S_n^+$. The construction of our quantum metric relies on the work of Biane and Voiculescu. We also obtain an associated quantum $1$-Wasserstein distance on the tracial state space of $C(S_n^+)$. This is joint work with David Jekel and Anshu Nirbay.


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