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Proof of Wang's conjecture on subspaces of an inner product space
Author(s):
Dragomir
Z.
Dokovic;
Jason
Sanmiya
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
129
(2001),
1573-1580.
MSC (1991):
Primary 15A03, 15A63;
Secondary 14C17, 15A42
Posted:
February 2, 2001
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Abstract:
B.Y. Wang conjectured that if and are subspaces of an -dimensional complex inner product space , and their dimensions are and , respectively, where , then there exists a -dimensional subspace having two orthonormal bases and with and for all . We prove this conjecture and its real counterpart. The proof is in essence an application of a real version of the Bézout Theorem for the product of several projective spaces.
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Additional Information:
Dragomir
Z.
Dokovic
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Email:
djokovic@uwaterloo.ca
Jason
Sanmiya
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Email:
jssanmiy@uwaterloo.ca
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06105-6
PII:
S 0002-9939(01)06105-6
Keywords:
Sequences of subspaces,
orthonormal bases,
B\'{e}zout theorem,
orientation of a graph
Received by editor(s):
July 30, 1999
Posted:
February 2, 2001
Additional Notes:
Supported in part by the NSERC Grant A-5285.
Communicated by:
Lance W. Small
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2001,
American Mathematical Society
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