The product of affine orthogonal projections (Q805965)

The authors reveal two subspaces \(H_ 1\) and \(H_ 2\) of the Hilbert space \(\ell_ 2\times \ell_ 2\) and an element \(f\in H_ 2^{\perp}\) such that the product \(T_ 2T_ 1\) has no fixed points, where \(T_ 1\) is the projector onto \(H_ 1\) and \(T_ 2\) the affine projector onto \(H_ 2+f\). This example shows that von Neumann's theorem concerning the existence of fixed points of the product of projectors (see \textit{I. Halperin} [Acta Sci. Math. 23, 96-99 (1962; Zbl 0143.161)] does not hold for affine projectors.