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Unitaries Permuting Two Orthogonal Projections

Functional Analysis 2017-03-28 v2

Abstract

Let PP and QQ be two orthogonal projections on a separable Hilbert space, \calH\calH. Wang, Du and Dou proved that there exists a unitary, UU, with UPU1=Q,UQU1=PUPU^{-1} =Q, \quad UQU^{-1} = P if and only if dim(kerPker(1Q))=dim(kerQker(1P))\dim(\ker P \cap \ker(1-Q)) = \dim(\ker Q \cap \ker(1-P)) (both may be infinite). We provide a new proof using the supersymmetric machinery of Avron, Seiler and Simon.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05437,
  title  = {Unitaries Permuting Two Orthogonal Projections},
  author = {Barry Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05437},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Final version accepted for publication in Linear Algebra and Its Applications

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