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On the polar decomposition of right linear operators in quaternionic Hilbert spaces

Functional Analysis 2016-09-01 v1 Spectral Theory

Abstract

In this article we prove the existence of the polar decomposition for densely defined closed right linear operators in quaternionic Hilbert spaces: If TT is a densely defined closed right linear operator in a quaternionic Hilbert space HH, then there exists a partial isometry U0U_{0} such that T=U0TT = U_{0}|T|. In fact U0U_{0} is unique if N(U0)=N(T)N(U_{0}) = N(T). In particular, if HH is separable and UU is a partial isometry with T=UTT = U|T|, then we prove that U=U0U = U_{0} if and only if either N(T)={0}N(T) = \{0\} or R(T)={0}R(T)^{\bot} = \{0\}.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06621,
  title  = {On the polar decomposition of right linear operators in quaternionic Hilbert spaces},
  author = {G. Ramesh and P. Santhosh Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06621},
  year   = {2016}
}

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