Schmidt decomposable products of projections

DOI10.1007/S00020-017-2402-XarXiv1706.05022MaRDI QIDQ6287900FDOQ6287900

Authors: Esteban Andruchow, Gustavo Corach 

Publication date: 15 June 2017

Abstract: We characterize operators $T=PQ$ ($P,Q$ orthogonal projections in a Hilbert space $H$) which have a singular value decomposition. A spatial characterizations is given: this condition occurs if and only if there exist orthonormal bases $ps{i}_n$ of $R(P)$ and $x{i}_n$ of $R(Q)$ such that $langlex{i}_n,ps{i}_{m}angle=0$ if $nem$. Also it is shown that this is equivalent to $A=P-Q$ being diagonalizable. Several examples are studied, relating Toeplitz, Hankel and Wiener-Hopf operators to this condition. We also examine the relationship with the differential geometry of the Grassmann manifold of underlying the Hilbert space: if $T=PQ$ has a singular value decomposition, then the generic parts of $P$ and $Q$ are joined by a minimal geodesic with diagonalizable exponent.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General (adjoints, conjugates, products, inverses, domains, ranges, etc.) (47A05) Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators (47A68) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35)

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