Generation of mapping cones from small sets

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Abstract: We answer in the affirmative a recently-posed question that asked if there exists an "untypical" convex mapping cone -- i.e., one that does not arise from the transpose map and the cones of k-positive and k-superpositive maps. We explicitly construct such a cone based on atomic positive maps. Our general technique is to consider the smallest convex mapping cone generated by a single map, and we derive several results on such mapping cones. We use this technique to also present several other examples of untypical mapping cones, including a family of cones generated by spin factors. We also provide a full characterization of mapping cones generated by single elements in the qubit case in terms of their typicality.


The authors prove that there exists an ``untypical convex mapping cone, i.e., one that does not arise from the transpose map and the cones of \(k\)-positive and \(k\)-superpositive maps. From the text: ``Our main approach to this problem is to consider convex mapping cones that are generated by small sets of positive maps -- that is, the smallest convex mapping cone that contains a given set of maps. The results are of interest in quantum entanglement theory: A partial order is considered based on the generation of mapping cones that measures how well one set of positive maps detects entanglement compared to another set. The authors show that these mapping cones are analogous to the cones of \(k\)-superpositive maps in a natural way.



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