Hermitian projections on some Banach spaces and related topics (Q2173324)

Let \(X\) be a complex Banach space. A bounded linear operator \(H\) is said to be Hermitian if \(e^{itH}\) is an isometry for all real scalars \(t\). This interesting paper deals with describing the structure of such operators in various contexts. The authors note that \(H\) is an onto isometry if and only if \(H^2 = I\). For a \(C^\ast\)-algebra \({\mathcal A}\), if \(H,H^2\) are Hermitian, then there exists an ideal \({\mathcal I}\) and a selfadjoint \(v \in M({\mathcal A})\) such that \(H(x) = vx\) for \(x \in {\mathcal I}^\bot\) and \(H(x) = xv\) for \(x \in {\mathcal I}^{\bot\bot}\).