Semidefinite perturbations in the subspace perturbation problem

DOI10.7900/JOT.2018FEB07.2186arXiv1708.02463MaRDI QIDQ6289902FDOQ6289902

Albrecht Seelmann

Publication date: 8 August 2017

Abstract: The variation of spectral subspaces for linear self-adjoint operators under an additive bounded semidefinite perturbation is considered. A variant of the Davis-Kahan $sin2Theta$ theorem from [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 7 (1970), 1--46] adapted to this situation is proved. Under a certain additional geometric assumption on the separation of the spectrum of the unperturbed operator, this leads to a sharp estimate on the norm of the difference of the spectral projections associated with isolated components of the spectrum of the perturbed and unperturbed operators, respectively. Without this additional geometric assumption on the isolated components of the spectrum of the unperturbed operator, a corresponding estimate is obtained by transferring the optimization approach for general perturbations in [J. Anal. Math. 135 (2018), 313--343] to the present situation.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Invariant subspaces of linear operators (47A15) Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Hermitian and normal operators (spectral measures, functional calculus, etc.) (47B15)

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