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Products of orthogonal projections

Author(s): Timur Oikhberg
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3659-3669.
MSC (1991): Primary 47A68; Secondary 47D03
Posted: May 17, 1999
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Abstract: We give a characterization of operators on a separable Hilbert space of norm less than one that can be represented as products of orthogonal projections and give an estimate on the number of factors. We also describe the norm closure of the set of all products of orthogonal projections.


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Additional Information:

Timur Oikhberg
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Email: timur@math.utexas.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05255-7
PII: S 0002-9939(99)05255-7
Keywords: Hilbert space, orthogonal projections
Received by editor(s): February 20, 1998
Posted: May 17, 1999
Additional Notes: This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through the Workshop in Linear Analysis at Texas A&M University and by Texas Advanced Research Program Grant 160766.
Communicated by: David R. Larson
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society


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