On a conjecture by Mbekhta about best approximation by polar factors

DOI10.1090/proc/15537WikidataQ113822971 ScholiaQ113822971MaRDI QIDQ5002555

Eduardo Chiumiento

Publication date: 28 July 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01825

zbMATH Keywords

indexbest approximationpolar decompositionpartial isometriespolar factorpair of projections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

47A53: (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories

47A05: General (adjoints, conjugates, products, inverses, domains, ranges, etc.)

47A46: Chains (nests) of projections or of invariant subspaces, integrals along chains, etc.

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