Lebesgue-type decomposition of positive operators

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Abstract: We give a simple and short proof of the classical Lebesgue decomposition theorem of measures via the Riesz orthogonal decomposition theorem of Hilbert spaces. The tools we employ are elementary Hilbert space techniques.


Let \(A\) and \(B\) be bounded positive linear operators on a complex Hilbert space \(H\). Positivity means that the quadratic forms of the corresponding operators are nonnegative semidefinite. A positive operator \(B\) is called absolutely continuous with respect to \(A\) if, for any sequence \((x_n)\) in \(H\), we have that \((Ax_n,x_n)\rightarrow 0\) and \((B(x_n -x_m),x_n - x_m) \rightarrow 0\) yields \((Bx_n ,x_n)\rightarrow 0\). \(B\) is singular with respect \(A\) if, for any positive linear operator \(C\), \(C\leq A\) and \(C\leq B\) hold only if \(C= 0\). The present paper is a revision of \textit{T. Ando}'s work [Acta Sci. Math. 38, 253--260 (1976; Zbl 0337.47011)] with the same title. The author gives a new construction for the Lebesgue decomposition of positive operators on Hilbert space with respect to each other. The author's approach is similar to that of \textit{H. Kosaki} [J. Oper. Theory 11, 137--143 (1984; Zbl 0577.47041)], in the sense that unbounded operator thechniques and factorization via two arbitrary Hilbert spaces are utilized.




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