Automorphisms of decompositions

DOI10.1515/MS-2015-0153MaRDI QIDQ2822860zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tim Hannan, John Harding

Publication date 5 October 2016

Published in Mathematica Slovaca (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5020

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismdirect product decompositionorthomodular posetWigner's Theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic combinatorics (05E99) Complemented lattices, orthocomplemented lattices and posets (06C15) Automorphisms and endomorphisms of algebraic structures (08A35) Combinatorial geometries and geometric closure systems (51D20) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

Abstract: Harding showed that the direct product decompositions of many different types of structures, such as sets, groups, vector spaces, topological spaces, and relational structures, naturally form orthomodular posets. When applied to the direct product decompositions of a Hilbert space, this construction yields the familiar orthomodular lattice of closed subspaces of the Hilbert space. In this note we consider orthomodular posets Fact X of decompositions of a finite set X. We consider the structure of these orthomodular posets, such as their size, shape, and connectedness, states, and begin a study of their automorphism groups in the context of the natural map Gamma from the group of permutations of X to the automorphism group of Fact X. We show Gamma is an embedding except when |X| is prime or 4, and completely describe the situation when |X| has two or fewer prime factors, when |X|=8 and when |X|=27. The bulk of our effort lies in a series of combinatorial arguments to show Gamma is an isomorphism when |X|=27. We conjecture that this is the case whenever |X| has sufficiently many prime factors of sufficient size, and hope that our arguments here might be adapted to the general case.

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