Decomposition of mappings approximately inner product preserving (Q2488246)

For Hilbert spaces \(E\) and \(F\), the authors consider the class of mappings \(f\) defined on \(E\) with values in \(F\) preserving an approximately inner product. They show that the orthogonal projection of \(f\) onto some closed linear subspace \(H\) of \(F\) is a linear isometry, while the projection onto the orthogonal complement of \(H\) is bounded by a certain function. Several interesting consequences of such a decomposition are given.