Segments of bounded linear idempotents on a Hilbert space

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2005.03.017MaRDI QIDQ2583797zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Julien Giol

Publication date 18 January 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2005.03.017

zbMATH Keywords

common complementHilbert space geometryhomotopic idempotentsidempotentpiecewise affine homotopyprojection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05)

Review text

For a real Banach algebra \(A\), denote by \({\mathcal I}(A)\) the set of all idempotents in \(A\), i.e., those \(p \in A\) for which \(p^2 = p\). Two idempotents \(p, q \in {\mathcal I}(A)\) are said to be homotopic in \(A\) (write \(p \sim q\)) if they may be connected by a continuous path lying in \({\mathcal I}(A)\). It is known that if \(p \sim q\), then there is a piecewise affine idempotent-valued path connecting \(p\) and \(q\), and the minimal number of segments required to connect \(p\) and \(q\) in \({\mathcal I}(A)\) is denoted by \(s(p,q)\). The main purpose of the paper under the review is to estimate the number \(s(p,q)\). As follows from an earlier result of the author, \(s(p,q) \leq 3\) in the finite-dimensional case. In passing, it is shown that this estimate is not true in general, and that if \(H\) is a separable Hilbert space, then \(s(p,q) \leq 4\) for any homotopic idempotents \(p,q \in {\mathcal I} ({\mathcal L} (H))\).

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