When products of projections diverge

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Abstract: Slow convergence of cyclic projections implies divergence of random projections and vice versa. Let L1,L2,dots,LK be a family of K closed subspaces of a Hilbert space. It is well known that although the cyclic product of the orthogonal projections on these spaces always converges in norm, random products might diverge. Moreover, in the cyclic case there is a dichotomy: the convergence is fast if and only if L1perp+dots+LKperp is closed; otherwise the convergence is arbitrarily slow. We prove a parallel to this result concerning random products: we characterize those families L1,dots,LK for which all random products converge using their geometric and combinatorial structure.












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