Connectivity of level sets of quadratic forms and Hausdorff-Toeplitz type theorems (Q1380146)
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Connectivity of level sets of quadratic forms and Hausdorff-Toeplitz type theorems (English)
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1 July 1998
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Given an arbitrary operator \(A: X\to X\) in a complex pre-Hilbert space \(X\), \(\dim X\geq 3\), the authors prove that all level sets \(F(A,\lambda)= \{x\in X:\langle Ax,x\rangle= \lambda\), \(|x|= 1\}\) are connected. Related to this main result, many other ones are derived by specializing \(A\) and \(F(A,\lambda)\).
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quadratic forms
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connectivity
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convexity
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generalized numerical range
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Hausdorff-Toeplitz theorem
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pre-Hilbert space
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