Norm of a linear combination of projectors in Hilbert space (Q748836)

Consider the operator \[ (S)(t)=(\pi i)^{-1}\int_{\Gamma}f(z)(z- t)^{-1} dz \] in the space \(L_ p(1,\rho)\), where \(\Gamma\) is a closed curve, \(\rho\) (t) is nonnegative weight. The authors show that in the case of \(p=2\) the calculation (computation) of the norm of the operator \(aI+bS\) reduces to computation of the norm of S. This result is a consequence of the general form (*) for the norm of a linear combination of an arbitrary projector P and the complement projectors \(Q=I-P\) in the abstract Hilbert space \({\mathcal H}\) \[ (*)\quad \| \alpha P+\beta Q\| =| \alpha -\beta |^ 2(\| p\|^ 2-1)+(| \alpha | +| \beta |^ 2)^{1/2}/2+(| \alpha -\beta |^ 2(\| p\|^ 2-1)+| \alpha | -| \beta |^ 2)^{1/2}/2, \] where P(\(\neq,0,I)\) is a projector in \({\mathcal H}\), \(Q=I-P\), and \(\alpha\),\(\beta\in C\). Notice that the form (*) is not valid in Banach spaces. The authors generalize the form (*) to the linear combination of P, Q, and the adjoint projector \(P^*\). Different applications of computation of the norm, and existence of the norm of singular integral operators in the space \(L_ 2(\Gamma,p)\) are given.