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Francesco Fidaleo

Publications and source records attributed to Francesco Fidaleo.

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arXiv2026

Infinite twisted $C^*$-tensor product and symmetric states

The twisted $C^*$-tensor product was exhaustively investigated by the authors in two previous papers. In this new context, generalising the usual tensor product and the Fermi one, we analyse the possibility of studying the set of symmetric states, that is those invariant under all finite permutations, in the setting of infinite twisted $C^*$-tensor products. As a preliminary result, we recognise that such an investigation can proceed only when the bicharacter, involved in the construction of such twisted tensor products, is hermitian. Otherwise, there is no natural action of the finitary symmetric group on the infinite twisted chain. Furthermore, even if the investigation of symmetric states is certainly meaningful for all twisted systems based on hermitian bicharacters, it is shown that it can be fruitfully carried out in three cases only. In these cases, we can provide the "genuine" version of the celebrated De Finetti Theorem already established by Hewitt and Savage for the general classical case, Stormer for the usual tensor product and Fidaleo for Fermi models. Very surprisingly, it emerges that one more twisted model can be treated exhaustively: it corresponds to the chain twisted by the so-called Klein four-group, and its Klein bicharacter unique up to equivalence.

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arXiv2026

Dominance and equivalence for states on $C^*$-algebras: Quasi-Invariant states

We study the noncommutative generalization of measure-theoretic dominance and equivalence of states on $C^*$-algebras to explore quasi-invariance under group actions. For a dominated state, we derive an unbounded "Radon-Nikodym" derivative affiliated with the commutant algebra of the dominating state's GNS representation. Interestingly, this dominance is generally non-transitive because the product of the corresponding closed operators can be non-closable. When looking at group actions by $*$-automorphisms, the orbit of a fixed quasi-invariant state consists entirely of mutually equivalent states. However, the orbit closure may contain singular states, meaning the set of quasi-invariant states is closed under convex combinations but not topologically closed. The paper also provides a unitary implementation of the group action on the GNS Hilbert space-generalizing covariant representations and compares this approach with the Pedersen-Takesaki construction, where the Radon-Nikodym derivative sits in the centraliser instead of the commutant.

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arXiv2024

On the reduction theory of $W^{*}$-algebras by Hilbert modules

We deal with the reduction theory of a $W^*$-algebra $M$ along a $W^*$-subalgebra $Z$ of the centre of $M$. This is done by using Hilbert modules naturally constructed by suitable spatial representations of the abelian $W^*$-algebra $Z$. We start with an exhaustive investigation of such kind of Hilbert modules, which is also of self-contained interest. After explaining the notion of the reduction in this framework, we exhibit the reduction of the standard form of a $W^*$-algebra $M$ along any $W^*$-subalgebra of its centre, containing the unit of $M$. In a forthcoming paper, this result is applied to study the structure of the standard representation of the $W^*$-tensor product $M_1\ots_Z M_2$ of two $W^*$-algebras $M_1$ and $M_2$ over a common $W^*$-subalgebra $Z$ of the centres.

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arXiv2023

On the Thermodynamics of Particles Obeying Monotone Statistics

The aim of the present paper is to provide a preliminary investigation of the thermodynamics of particles obeying monotone statistics. To render the potential physical applications realistic, we propose a modified scheme called block-monotone, based on a partial order arising from the natural one on the spectrum of a positive Hamiltonian with compact resolvent. The block-monotone scheme is never comparable with the weak monotone one and is reduced to the usual monotone scheme whenever all the eigenvalues of the involved Hamiltonian are non-degenerate. Through a detailed analysis of a model based on the quantum harmonic oscillator, we can see that: (a) the computation of the grand-partition function does not require the Gibbs correction factor $n!$ (connected with the indistinguishability of particles) in the various terms of its expansion with respect to the activity; and (b) the decimation of terms contributing to the grand-partition function leads to a kind of "exclusion principle" analogous to the Pauli exclusion principle enjoined by Fermi particles, which is more relevant in the high-density regime and becomes negligible in the low-density regime, as expected.

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arXiv2022

Spectral actions for q-particles and their asymptotics

For spectral actions consisting of the average number of particles and arising from open systems made of general free $q$-particles (including Bose, Fermi and classical ones corresponding to $q=\pm 1$ and $0$, respectively) in thermal equilibrium, we compute the asymptotic expansion with respect to the natural cut-off. We treat both relevant situations relative to massless and non relativistic massive particles, where the natural cut-off is $1/β=k_{\rm B}T$ and $1/\sqrtβ$, respectively. We show that the massless situation enjoys less regularity properties than the massive one. We also treat in some detail the relativistic massive case for which the natural cut-off is again $1/β$. We then consider the passage to the continuum describing infinitely extended open systems in thermal equilibrium, by also discussing the appearance of condensation phenomena occurring for Bose-like $q$-particles, $q\in(0,1]$. We then compare the arising results for the finite volume situation (discrete spectrum) with the corresponding infinite volume one (continuous spectrum).

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arXiv2022

On the Thermodynamics of the q-Particles

Since the grand partition function $Z_q$ for the so-called $q$-particles (i.e.,\ quons), $q\in(-1,1)$, cannot be computed by using the standard 2nd quantisation technique involving the full Fock space construction for $q=0$, and its $q$-deformations for the remaining cases, we determine such grand partition functions in order to obtain the natural generalisation of the Plank distribution to $q\in [-1,1]$. We also note the (non) surprising fact that the right grand partition function concerning the Boltzmann case (i.e.,\ $q=0$) can be easily obtained by using the full Fock space 2nd quantisation, by considering the appropriate correction by the Gibbs factor $1/n!$ in the $n$ term of the power series expansion with respect to the fugacity $z$. As an application, we briefly discuss the equations of the state for a gas of free quons or the condensation phenomenon into the ground state, also occurring for the Bose-like quons $q\in(0,1)$.

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arXiv2022

Modular spectral triples and deformed Fredholm modules

In the setting of non-type $\ty{II_1}$ representations, we propose a definition of {\it deformed Fredholm module} $\big[D_\ct|D_\ct|^{-1}\,,\,{\bf\cdot}\,\big]_\ct$ for a modular spectral triple $\ct$, where $D_\ct$ is the deformed Dirac operator. $D_\ct$ is assumed to be invertible for the sake of simplicity, and its domain is an "essential" operator system $\ce_\ct$. According to such a definition, we obtain $\big[D_\ct|D_\ct|^{-1}\,,\,{\bf\cdot}\,\big]_\ct=|D_\ct|^{-1}d_\ct(\,{\bf\cdot}\,)+d_\ct(\,{\bf\cdot}\,)|D_\ct|^{-1}$, where $d_\ct$ is the deformed derivation associated to $D_\ct$. Since the "quantum differential" $1/|D_\ct|$ appears in a symmetric position, such a definition of Fredholm module differs from the usual one even in the undeformed case, that is in the tracial case. Therefore, it seems to be more suitable for the investigation of noncommutative manifolds in which the nontrivial modular structure might play a crucial role. We show that all models in \cite{FS} of non-type $\ty{II_1}$ representations of noncommutative 2-tori indeed provide modular spectral triples, and in addition deformed Fredholm modules according to the definition proposed in the present paper. Since the detailed knowledge of the spectrum of the Dirac operator plays a fundamental role in spectral geometry, we provide a characterisation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the deformed Dirac operator $D_\ct$ in terms of the periodic solutions of a particular class of eigenvalue Hill equations.

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arXiv2022

Decoherence for Markov chains

The subspace generated by the eigenvectors pertaining to the peripheral spectrum of any stochastic matrix is naturally equipped with a structure of a (finite dimensional abelian) $C^*$-algebra, and the restriction of such a stochastic matrix to this subspace, indeed a $C^*$-algebra under this canonical new product, generates a conservative $C^*$-dynamical system.

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arXiv2022

Symmetric states for $C^*$-Fermi systems I: De Finetti theorem

n the present note, which is the first part of a work concerning the study of the set of the symmetric states for Fermi systems, we describe the extension of the De Finetti theorem to the infinite Fermi $C^*$-tensor product of a single (separable) general $\bz^2$-graded $C^*$-algebra.

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arXiv2021

Ergodic properties of the Anzai skew-product for the noncommutative torus

We provide a systematic study of a noncommutative extension of the classical Anzai skew-product for the cartesian product of two copies of the unit circle to the noncommutative 2-tori. In particular, some relevant ergodic properties are proved for these quantum dynamical systems, extending the corresponding ones enjoyed by the classical Anzai skew-product. As an application, for a uniquely ergodic Anzai skew-product $\F$ on the noncommutative $2$-torus $\ba_\a$, $\a\in\br$, we investigate the pointwise limit, $\lim_{n\to+\infty}\frac1{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}ł^{-k}\F^k(x)$, for $x\in\ba_\a$ and $ł$ a point in the unit circle, and show that there exist examples for which the limit does not exist even in the weak topology.

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arXiv2021

Spectral and ergodic properties of completely positive maps and decoherence

In an attempt to propose more general conditions for decoherence to occur, we study spectral and ergodic properties of unital, completely positive maps on not necessarily unital $C^*$-algebras, with a particular focus on gapped maps for which the transient portion of the arising dynamical system can be separated from the persistent one. After some general results, we first devote our attention to the abelian case by investigating the unital $*$-endomorphisms of, in general non-unital, $C^*$-algebras, and their spectral structure. The finite dimensional case is also investigated in detail, and examples are provided of unital completely positive maps for which the persistent part of the associated dynamical system is equipped with the new product making it a $C^*$-algebra, and the map under consideration restricts to a unital $*$-automorphism for this new $C^*$-structure, thus generating a conservative dynamics on that persistent part.

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arXiv2021

Invariant Conditional Expectations and Unique Ergodicity for Anzai Skew-Products

Anzai skew-products are shown to be uniquely ergodic with respect to the fixed-point subalgebra if and only if there is a unique conditional expectation onto such a subalgebra which is invariant under the dynamics. For the particular case of skew-products, this solves a question raised by B. Abadie and K. Dykema in the wider context of $C^*$-dynamical systems.

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arXiv2021

Skew-product dynamical systems for crossed product $C^*$-algebras and their ergodic properties

Starting from a discrete $C^*$-dynamical system $(\mathfrak{A}, θ, ω_o)$, we define and study most of the main ergodic properties of the crossed product $C^*$-dynamical system $(\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_α\mathbb{Z}, Φ_{θ, u},\om_o\circ E)$, $E:\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_α\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\ga$ being the canonical conditional expectation of $\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_α\mathbb{Z}$ onto $\mathfrak{A}$, provided $\a\in\aut(\ga)$ commute with the $*$-automorphism $þ$ up tu a unitary $u\in\ga$. Here, $Φ_{θ, u}\in\aut(\mathfrak{A}\rtimes_α\mathbb{Z})$ can be considered as the fully noncommutative generalisation of the celebrated skew-product defined by H. Anzai for the product of two tori in the classical case.

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arXiv2021

Harmonic analysis on inhomogeneous amenable networks and the Bose--Einstein condensation

We study in detail relevant spectral properties of the adjacency matrix of inhomogeneous amenable networks, and in particular those arising by negligible additive perturbations of periodic lattices. The obtained results are deeply connected to the systematic investigation of the Bose--Einstein condensation for the so called Pure Hopping model describing the thermodynamics of Bardeen--Cooper pairs of Bosons in arrays of Josephson junctions.

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arXiv2020

$C^*$-fermi systems and detailed balance

A systematic theory of product and diagonal states is developed for tensor products of $\mathbb Z_2$-graded $*$-algebras, as well as $\mathbb Z_2$-graded $C^*$-algebras. As a preliminary step to achieve this goal, we provide the construction of a {\it fermionic $C^*$-tensor product} of $\mathbb Z_2$-graded $C^*$-algebras. Twisted duals of positive linear maps between von Neumann algebras are then studied, and applied to solve a positivity problem on the infinite Fermi lattice. Lastly, these results are used to define fermionic detailed balance (which includes the definition for the usual tensor product as a particular case) in general $C^*$-systems with gradation of type $\mathbb Z_2$, by viewing such a system as part of a compound system and making use of a diagonal state.

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arXiv2020

On the uniform convergence of ergodic averages for $C^*$-dynamical systems

We investigate some ergodic and spectral properties of general (discrete) $C^*$-dynamical systems $({\mathfrak A},Φ)$ made of a unital $C^*$-algebra and a multiplicative, identity-preserving $*$-map $Φ:{\mathfrak A}\to{\mathfrak A}$, particularising the situation when $({\mathfrak A},Φ)$ enjoys the property of unique ergodicity with respect to the fixed-point subalgebra. For $C^*$-dynamical systems enjoying or not the strong ergodic property mentioned above, we provide conditions on $λ$ in the unit circle $\{z\in{\mathbb C}\mid |z|=1\}$ and the corresponding eigenspace ${\mathfrak A}_λ\subset{\mathfrak A}$ for which the sequence of Cesaro averages $\left(\frac1{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}λ^{-k}Φ^k\right)_{n>0}$, converges point-wise in norm. We also describe some pivotal examples coming from quantum probability, to which the obtained results can be applied.

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arXiv2019

Fourier analysis for type III representations of the noncommutative torus

For the noncommutative 2-torus, we define and study Fourier transforms arising from representations of states with central supports in the bidual, exhibiting a possibly nontrivial modular structure (i.e. type III representations). We then prove the associated noncommutative analogous of Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma and Hausdorff-Young Theorem. In addition, the $L^p$- convergence result of the Cesaro means (i.e. the Fejer theorem), and the Abel means reproducing the Poisson kernel are also established, providing inversion formulae for the Fourier transforms in $L^p$ spaces, $p\in[1,2]$. Finally, in $L^2(M)$ we show how such Fourier transforms "diagonalise" appropriately some particular cases of modular Dirac operators, the latter being part of a one-parameter family of modular spectral triples naturally associated to the previously mentioned non type ${\rm II}_1$ representations.

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arXiv2018

Wick order, spreadability and exchangeability for monotone commutation relations

We exhibit a Hamel basis for the concrete $*$-algebra $\mathfrak{M}_o$ associated to monotone commutation relations realised on the monotone Fock space, mainly composed by Wick ordered words of annihilators and creators. We apply such a result to investigate spreadability and exchangeability of the stochastic processes arising from such commutation relations. In particular, we show that spreadability comes from a monoidal action implementing a dissipative dynamics on the norm closure $C^*$-algebra $\mathfrak{M} = \overline{\mathfrak{M}_o}$. Moreover, we determine the structure of spreadable and exchangeable monotone stochastic processes using their correspondence with sp\-reading invariant and symmetric monotone states, respectively.

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