A walk on max-plus algebra

Max-plus algebra is a kind of idempotent semiring over $\mathbb{R}_{\max}:=\mathbb{R}\cup\{-\infty\}$ with two operations $\oplus := \max$ and $\otimes := +$.In this paper, we introduce a new model of a walk on one dimensional lattice on $\mathbb{Z}$, as an analogue of the quantum walk, over the max...

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Main Authors Watanabe, Sennosuke, Fukuda, Akiko, Segawa, Etsuo, Sato, Iwao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 23.08.2019
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Mathematics - Mathematical Physics
Physics - Mathematical Physics
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Summary:Max-plus algebra is a kind of idempotent semiring over $\mathbb{R}_{\max}:=\mathbb{R}\cup\{-\infty\}$ with two operations $\oplus := \max$ and $\otimes := +$.In this paper, we introduce a new model of a walk on one dimensional lattice on $\mathbb{Z}$, as an analogue of the quantum walk, over the max-plus algebra and we call it max-plus walk. In the conventional quantum walk, the summation of the $\ell^2$-norm of the states over all the positions is a conserved quantity. In contrast, the summation of eigenvalues of state decision matrices is a conserved quantity in the max-plus walk.Moreover, spectral analysis on the total time evolution operator is also given.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1908.09051