Modulo-4 asymptotics for commutators of spectral projections of spin operators

Let Jx,Jy,JzJ_x,J_y,J_z be the generators of an irreducible, unitary, nn-dimensional representation of SU(2)SU(2), and set

Cn=[\mathbbm1(0,)(Jx),\mathbbm1(0,)(Jz)].C_n=\left[\mathbbm{1}_{(0,\infty)}(J_x),\mathbbm{1}_{(0,\infty)}(J_z)\right].

Write o(1)o(1) for a quantity tending to zero as nn\to\infty. The modulo-4 asymptotic conjecture. The operator norms satisfy

C4n+3opC4n+1opC4n+3opC4nop=o(1)\frac{\lVert C_{4n+3}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}-\lVert C_{4n+1}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}}{\lVert C_{4n+3}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}-\lVert C_{4n}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}}=o(1)

and

C4n+3opC4n+1op12C4n+pop=o(1)\frac{\lVert C_{4n+3}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}-\lVert C_{4n+1}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}}{\frac 1 2-\lVert C_{4n+p}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}}=o(1)

for p=0,1,3p=0,1,3. These asymptotics describe the apparent dependence of the norms on the representation dimension modulo 44, complementing the proved facts that C4n+2op=12\lVert C_{4n+2}\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}=\frac12 and limnCnop=12\lim_{n\to\infty}\lVert C_n\rVert_{\operatorname{op}}=\frac12.

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Primary source

Ood Shabtai, “Commutators of spectral projections of spin operators”, arXiv:2008.00221 (2020).

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