Pairs of Projections: Geodesics, Fredholm and Compact Pairs

A pair (P,Q) of orthogonal projections in a Hilbert space H is called a Fredholm pair if QP:R(P)→R(Q)is a Fredholm operator. Let F be the set of all Fredholm pairs. A pair is called compact if P−Q is compact. Let C be the set of all compact pairs. Clearly C⊂F properly. In this paper it is shown that...

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Autor: Andruchow, Esteban
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/12181
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/12181
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Projection
Geodesic
Fredolm Operator
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:A pair (P,Q) of orthogonal projections in a Hilbert space H is called a Fredholm pair if QP:R(P)→R(Q)is a Fredholm operator. Let F be the set of all Fredholm pairs. A pair is called compact if P−Q is compact. Let C be the set of all compact pairs. Clearly C⊂F properly. In this paper it is shown that both sets are differentiable manifolds, whose connected components are parametrized by the Fredholm index. In the process, pairs P,Q that can be joined by a geodesic (or equivalently, a minimal geodesic) of the Grassmannian of H are characterized: this happens if and only if dim(R(P)∩N(Q))=dim(R(Q)∩N(P)).