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Orthogonal apartments in Hilbert Grassmannians. Finite-dimensional case

Combinatorics 2015-12-24 v1

Abstract

Let HH be a complex Hilbert space of finite dimension n3n\ge 3. Denote by Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H) the Grassmannian consisting of kk-dimensional subspaces of HH. Every orthogonal apartment of Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H) is defined by a certain orthogonal base of HH and consists of all kk-dimensional subspaces spanned by subsets of this base. For n2kn\ne 2k (except the case when n=6n=6 and kk is equal to 22 or 44) we show that every bijective transformation of Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H) sending orthogonal apartments to orthogonal apartments is induced by an unitary or conjugate-unitary operator on HH. The second result is the following: if n=2k8n=2k\ge 8 and ff is a bijective transformation of Gk(H){\mathcal G}_{k}(H) such that ff and f1f^{-1} send orthogonal apartments to orthogonal apartments then there is an unitary or conjugate-unitary operator UU such that for every XGk(H)X\in {\mathcal G}_{k}(H) we have f(X)=U(X)f(X)=U(X) or f(X)f(X) coincides with the orthogonal complement of U(X)U(X).

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@article{arxiv.1512.07517,
  title  = {Orthogonal apartments in Hilbert Grassmannians. Finite-dimensional case},
  author = {Mark Pankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07517},
  year   = {2015}
}