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Analytic bundle structure on the idempotent manifold

Differential Geometry 2020-01-09 v1 Functional Analysis Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let XX be a (real or complex) Banach space, and I(X)\mathcal{I}(X) be the set of all (non-zero and non-identity) idempotents; i.e., bounded linear operators on XX whose squares equal themselves. We show that the Banach submanifold I(X)\mathcal{I}(X) of L(X)\mathcal{L}(X) is a locally trivial analytic affine-Banach bundle over the Grassmann manifold G(X)\mathscr{G}(X), via the map κ\kappa that sends QI(X)Q\in \mathcal{I}(X) to Q(X)Q(X), such that the affine-Banach space structure on each fiber is the one induced from L(X)\mathcal{L}(X) (in particular, every fiber is an affine-Banach subspace of L(X)\mathcal{L}(X)). Using this, we show that if KK is a real Hilbert space, then the assignment (E,T)TPE+PE, where EG(K) and TL(E,E),(E,T)\mapsto T^*\circ P_{E^\bot} + P_{E}, \quad \text{ where } E\in \mathscr{G}(K)\text{ and } T\in \mathcal{L}(E,E^\bot), induces a bi-analytic bijection from the total space of the tangent bundle, T(G(K))\mathbf{T}(\mathscr{G}(K)), of G(K)\mathscr{G}(K) onto I(K)\mathcal{I}(K) (here, EE^\bot is the orthogonal complement of EE, PEL(K)P_E\in \mathcal{L}(K) is the orthogonal projection onto EE, and TT^* is the adjoint of TT). Notice that this bi-analytic bijection is an affine map on each tangent plane.

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@article{arxiv.2001.02352,
  title  = {Analytic bundle structure on the idempotent manifold},
  author = {Chi-Wai Leung and Chi-Keung Ng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.02352},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Any comment is welcome, especially information on whether the representation results of the tangent bundle of the Grassmannian in Theorem 2 is known in the finite dimensional case

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