The carpenter and Schur-Horn problems for masas in finite factors

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Authors Junsheng Fang, Roger R. Smith, Ken Dykema, Don Hadwin

Publication date 2 June 2014

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6500, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ijm/1399395834

zbMATH Keywords

carpenter problemfinite factorhyperfinite factormasamaximal Abelian self-adjoint subalgebrasSchur-Horn problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving eigenvalues and eigenvectors (15A42) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10)

Abstract: Two classical theorems in matrix theory, due to Schur and Horn, relate the eigenvalues of a self-adjoint matrix to the diagonal entries. These have recently been given a formulation in the setting of operator algebras as the Schur-Horn problem, where matrix algebras and diagonals are replaced respectively by finite factors and maximal abelian self-adjoint subalgebras (masas). There is a special case of the problem, called the carpenter problem, which can be stated as follows: for a masa A in a finite factor M with conditional expectation E_A, can each x in A with 0 <= x <= 1 be expressed as E_A(p) for a projection p in M? In this paper, we investigate these problems for various masas. We give positive solutions for the generator and radial masas in free group factors, and we also solve affirmatively a weaker form of the Schur-Horm problem for the Cartan masa in the hyperfinite factor.

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