Zauner's strong conjecture on Weyl–Heisenberg SIC POVMs

Let d2d\geq 2, let Zd={0,1,,d1}\mathbb{Z}_d=\{0,1,\ldots,d-1\}, and let Wi,j=UiVjW_{i,j}=U^iV^j be the discrete Weyl matrices on Cd\mathbb{C}^d, with UU the cyclic shift and VV the diagonal matrix of dd-th roots of unity. A unit vector wCdw\in\mathbb{C}^d is a fiducial vector when its Weyl orbit generates a SIC POVM. Zauner's strong conjecture. For every positive integer d2d\geq 2, there exists a unit vector wCdw\in\mathbb{C}^d such that

{Wi,jw:(i,j)Zd×Zd}Cd\{W_{i,j}w:(i,j)\in\mathbb{Z}_d\times\mathbb{Z}_d\}\subseteq\mathbb{C}^d

generates a SIC POVM. It is a stronger, group-covariant form of Zauner's weak conjecture, and the source notes that it is not known whether the weak conjecture implies this stronger conjecture; its general status is open.

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Satish K. Pandey, Vern I. Paulsen, Jitendra Prakash and Mizanur Rahaman, “Entanglement Breaking Rank and the existence of SIC POVMs”, arXiv:1805.04583 (2020).

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