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Orthogonal apartments in Hilbert Grassmannians

Combinatorics 2015-12-17 v2

Abstract

Let HH be an infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert space and let L(H){\mathcal L}(H) be the logic formed by all closed subspaces of HH. For every natural kk we denote by Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H) the Grassmannian consisting of kk-dimensional subspaces. An orthogonal apartment of Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H) is the set consisting of all kk-dimensional subspaces spanned by subsets of a certain orthogonal base of HH. Orthogonal apartments can be characterized as maximal sets of mutually compatible elements of Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H). We show that every bijective transformation ff of Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H) such that ff and f1f^{-1} send orthogonal apartments to orthogonal apartments (in other words, ff preserves the compatibility relation in both directions) can be uniquely extended to an automorphism of L(H){\mathcal L}(H).

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@article{arxiv.1512.01007,
  title  = {Orthogonal apartments in Hilbert Grassmannians},
  author = {Mark Pankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01007},
  year   = {2015}
}
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