A ``typical contraction is unitary

DOI10.4171/LEM/56-3-6MaRDI QIDQ536450zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tanja Eisner

Publication date 18 May 2011

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1994

zbMATH Keywords

isometriesresidual setunitary operatorscontractions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory of linear operators (47A35) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06) Groups and semigroups of linear operators, their generalizations and applications (47D99)

Abstract: We show that (for the weak operator topology) the set of unitary operators on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space is residual in the set of all contractions. The analogous result holds for isometries and the strong operator topology as well. These results are applied to the problem of embedding operators into strongly continuous semigroups.

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