Lin's symmetry-preserving almost-commuting matrices conjecture

Let HH and XX be self-adjoint matrices in a matrix algebra, and suppose that (X,H)(X,H) belongs to an Altland–Zirnbauer symmetry class. Lin's theorem states that sufficiently almost-commuting HH and XX can be approximated by commuting self-adjoint matrices H1H_1 and X1X_1. Lin's symmetry-preserving conjecture. Lin's theorem should remain true when (X,H)(X,H) belongs to any Altland–Zirnbauer symmetry class, with the approximating pair (X1,H1)(X_1,H_1) required to belong to the same symmetry class. The claim asks whether Lin's approximation can preserve the imposed time-reversal, particle-hole, or chiral symmetry; the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Terry A. Loring, “K-Theory and Pseudospectra for Topological Insulators”, arXiv:1502.03498 (2015).

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