The soft torus: A variational analysis of commutator norms

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1994.1148MaRDI QIDQ1891767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruy Exel

Publication date 14 June 1995

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/funct-an/9212004

zbMATH Keywords

decreases the commutator normfibersfield of \(C^*\)-algebraslocal minimum pointspair of noncommuting unitary operatorsperturbations in the normsoft tori

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87)

Abstract: The field of C*-algebras over the interval [0,2] for which the fibers are the Soft Tori is shown to be continuous. This result is applied to show that any pair of non-commuting unitary operators can be perturbed (in a weak sense) in such a way to decrease the commutator norm. Perturbations in norm are also considered and a characterization is given for pairs of unitary operators which are local minimum points for the commutator norm in the finite dimensional case.

Review text

The author shows that the field of \(C^*\)-algebras over the interval \([0, 2]\) for which the fibers are the soft tori is continuous. This result is applied to show that any pair of noncommuting unitary operators can be perturbed (in a weak sense) in a way which decreases the commutator norm. He also considers perturbations in the norm and gives a characterization for pairs of unitary operators which are local minimum points for the commutator norm in the finite-dimensional case.

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