Birkhoff-James orthogonality of operators in semi-Hilbertian spaces and its applications

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Abstract: In this paper, the concept of Birkhoff--James orthogonality of operators on a Hilbert space is generalized when a semi-inner product is considered. More precisely, for linear operators T and S on a complex Hilbert space mathcalH, a new relation TperpABS is defined if T and S are bounded with respect to the seminorm induced by a positive operator A satisfying |T+gammaS|Ageq|T|A for all gammainmathbbC. We extend a theorem due to R. Bhatia and P. v{S}emrl, by proving that TperpABS if and only if there exists a sequence of A-unit vectors xn in mathcalH such that displaystylelimnightarrow+infty|Txn|A=|T|A and displaystylelimnightarrow+inftylangleTxn,SxnangleA=0. In addition, we give some A-distance formulas. Particularly, we prove �egin{align*} displaystyle{inf_{gamma in mathbb{C}}}{|T + gamma S|}_{A} = supBig{|{langle Tx, y angle}_A|; , {|x|}_{A} = {|y|}_{A} = 1, , {langle Sx, y angle}_A = 0Big}. end{align*} Some other related results are also discussed.


The article under review explores the seminorm induced by a positive linear operator between Hilbert spaces. This consideration allows the author to consider a generalized version of Birkhoff-James orthogonality of operators on a Hilbert space, with respect to the corresponding semi-inner-product induced by the operator. The author obtains a Bhatia-Šemrl type characterization of orthogonality of linear operators, in the context of the above setting. Furthermore, some distance formulas have also been proved with respect to the said seminorm. Further study of the main idea developed in this article should be possible in case of some special classes of operators between Banach spaces.




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