Surveying points in the complex projective plane (Q890146)

SIC-POVMs on a Hermitian space are motivated by the theory of quantum measurements and have applications in quantum tomography and quantum cryptography. They can be interpreted mathematically as a set of points on a projective space that are mutually equidistant with respect to the standard Kähler metric. The authors find nine mutually equidistant points on \(\mathbb{CP}^2\) using methods of the Heisenberg group. Moreover, they prove that any set of nine equidistant points must be isometric to that set. Numerous pictures, the Buchberger algorithm and Gröbner bases with Mathematica support the work.